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A92099	Prince Ruperts declaration to the King of Portugall. With the answer thereunto, in defence of the Parliaments proceedings with a relation of what passed between the two fleets on the river of Lisburne. / Sent up in a letter from Captain Thorowgood Captain of the Admirall.	Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.; Thorowgood, Captain.; John IV, King of Portugal, 1604-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing R2295; Thomason E598_7; ESTC R203410	10,311	16

PRINCE RUPERTS DECLARATION TO THE KING OF PORTVGALL WITH The ANSWER thereunto in Defence of the Parliaments Proceedings With a Relation of what passed between the two Fleets on the River of LISBURNE Sent up in a Letter from Captain Thorowgood Captain of the ADMIRALL LONDON Printed for George Whittington at the Blew-Ancor near the Royall Exchange in Cornhill 1650. The DECLARATION of Prince Rupert to the KINGDOM of PORTUGALL Concerning the coming in of the English Fleet of the Parliament of England into the River and Port of LIX ALthough the most insolent and horrid proceedings of the Rebels party in England commonly known by the name or notion of Parliamentarians whereas in truth they are nothing else but tumultuous factious seditious Souldiers and other disorderly disobedient refractory persons conspiring together and reteining nothing of the ancient form and Government of lawful Parliaments might be a sufficient notice to awaken all Christian Princes seriously to attend the aimes designs of those pernicious Conspirators least the fire now kindled in England may perchance in a short time come to their own doors especially if these circumstances following be duly reflected on That these persons have not onely from time to time for many yeares past taken up Arms and in a hostile manner made Warre upon their Soveraigne Lord and King but having by certaine Wiles and false devices got him into their possession by an unheard of and unparallel'd example under colour of Justice cut off his Head as if he had been a person subject to the Orders and Decrees of an enraged multitude That after the death of their Soveraigne Lord and King they have by publick vote and so farre as in them lies dethroned his undoubted Sonne Heir and Successour of all accesse to his hereditary right in the Crowne and by an Act of Engagement do daily enforce the People to abjure Kingly Government That they are sworne and professed enemies to all civill and setled Government both in Church and Common-wealth and do labour to bring all to a party in both for that these persons having laid the foundation of their greatnesse of their power upon these and such like detestable principles in their own Countrey what may we think may they attempt in neighbouring Nations when time and occasion shall serve yet that which is of a more near relation and concernment to the Kingdom of Portugall may be sufficiently gathered from other Circumstances here ensuing 1. That this Fleet of the Rebels was procured by the solicitation of the Spanish Ambassador now residing in London and is to remaine here or upon these Coasts untill another Fleet come to joyne with it and whatsoever may be pretended their design is not meerly against our person and his Majesty the King of great Brittain his Fleet under our Command but to joyne with the Castillian and to go with him into the straits against the French and then to come against this Countrey as by the confession of the Spanish Ambassadour his Secretary and some of the Councel of State of England to some persons of quality in England it hath been discovered so although it should so fortune they should have their ends upon us and his Majesty the King of great Brittains Fleet under our Command now remaining in this Harbour of Lisborne yet there is not any likelihood of an end of their designes against this Kingdom and People for who will not presume and inferre that this solicitation and Agency of the Spanish Ambassadour is not to oppose and overthrowe his Majesties Enemies and who will not believe but there is some great designe between these people and the Castilians in hand against the peace and tranquillity of this Kingdom whereas it is certain that there came an Agent from the Rebels for Castile in the Admirall of their fleet who if not gone away with the Merchant-men bound for St. Lucas that came in company with the Fleet is still aboard the same Ship If it be replyed that likewise by this Fleet they have sent an Agent to his Majesty the King of Portugall which may be an argument of their desire to keep an equall Amity with both these Princes It is answered that this Agent which now comes to Portugall was not thought of 3 weekes before the Fleet put to Sea and was procured by the Merchants of London as was made known by a Petition they addressed to the pretended Parliament in that behalfe in contriving of which Petition there was principle actors two Brothers that lived here called Bushells and that still have a Brother living here who is a person notoriously interressed in the behalfe of the Rebells this Agent is likewise to be maintained by the same Merchants and the publick body of the pretended Parliament or those who have now the supream sway of England whatsoever further orders may be pretended have no further Interest in the Agent then thereby to make his Agency a Cloake to cover and conceale their designes 2. It doth appeare by div●rs Letters written froe London to Merchants in this Town that it was publickly voted in the pretended Parliament and by the Councell of State now ruling in England that if his Majesty the King of Portugall should receive his Majesty the King of great Brittain his Fleet commanded by us or give liberty for the sale of any goods surprized by us at Sea in the Ports of his dominions they would make Warre against him so that if this resolution stand to what end can their sending of an Agent hither be unlesse it be that he may serve as a spy to hold correspondency with his Brother Agent that is gone for Spaine and to give him intelligence of such advantages as may be taken for the supplanting of this Realme 3. The manner of the coming of this Fleet doth much augment the suspition of a designe in the businesse for whereas our being here with a Fleet of his Majesties the King of great Brittain who is an Ally and confederate of this Crown doth by the Lawes of the whole world in all reason and equity challenge a safety and protection as long as we continue in the Port. For these People to come into the Port with so many Ships of so great strength under the pretence of assailling us and to advance in that manner as they did wanting leave or silence obtained from his Majesty the King of Portugall for the same was so highly an audacious Act as if they held the Law of Nations and the right of all forraigne Princes in as great contempt as they have held the Lawes of their own Countrey and the rights of their native King And it is to be feared that if the Forts and Castles belonging to his Majesty the King of Portugall had permitted them to enter and to have spoiled the Fleet under our Command there rage would not have ended there but would have attempted something of the City and his Majesty the King of Portugall his Ships

now lying in the Harbour that so an entrance might be made for the Spaniard who now lies upon the Frontiers with an Army or the Kings preparation of shipping to defend his Rights in Brazeele against Hollanders might be disappointed and beaten down and perhaps it hath not been without some mystery or designe that at their first entrance the Lieutenant of their Admirall was sent ashore and had private meetings and consultations in Bushells house and that Mr. Taytam and Mr. Ell and other Masters of English Ships entertained in the service of the King of Portugall should go to and from the Rebells Ships in the night and other times without the leave or privity of the King or any Minister of state under him 4. Notwithstanding the audacious and insolent attempts of these People before resited were repulsed by the Forts and Castles of his Majestie then King of Portugall yet what have they since done they have onely retired a little out of the reach of the Castles and do now block up the very port it selfe whereby we do not onely loose the priviledge and libertie of the Port for as long as free ingresse and egresse is denied we cannot be said to injoy the liberty of the Port but a high affront is done to the whole Nation in that the principle port of their Kingdom in the very sight of the King and his Court is thus abused by a Company of declared Rebels who have not any ri●ht or priviledge in Law to make Warre and thereby not onely that Petition which is due to the Forces of his Majesty the King of great Brittain their Ally and Confederate is violated but the Trade and commerce of their own Countrey in consequence of reason must needes be dissolved and undone A thing which the Law of Nations doth not permit to any Soveraigne Prince or State in Warre with a just enemy in the Port of a common Friend as by the stories and practice of all Nations both ancient and moderne it may be made appeare and therefore we have much reason to hope that the Honour of the Portuguez Nation wil not indure such insolency to be committed by these People who being Rebells to their Prince having in Law no right or priviledge in War are to be deemed and esteemed as Pirates and Sea Rovers and whatsoever else worse may be but will heartily and seriously joyne with his Majesty the King of Great Brittaines Fleet under our Command for the cleering of liberty of their Port they assuring to us that just Protection which we claime for the vindication of their own Commerce and Trade the prevention of the disigns of their and our implacable enemies to give demonstration to the whole world how little the insolency of these People is to be endured that so the peace amity and correspodency between the Crowns of England and Portugall may in all things be continued firm and inviolable according to the intent and meaning of the Articles and capitulations of peace had and made between them THE ANSWER TO Prince Ruperts DECLARATION ALthough the Paper Intituled The Declaration of His Hignesse Prince Rupert be so full of notorious lies false grounds unprobable surmises that it is not likely to produce any other effect upon serious and intelligent spirits that know any thing of the state of our affairs then to move them to a further discovery and contempt of his most Illustrious arrogancy Yet because there may be many ingenuous men as well of our own as the other Nation who meerly through ignorance in matter of fact may have their judgements much dazled by the Authority of such splendid and Majesticall impostures and chiefly because the present drift of the Paper is to raise jealousies between the most renowned King of Portugall and the Fleet of the Parliament of England I shall not think it time much misspent to give some short animadversion upon it not taking much notice of his filthy and scurrelous Rhetorick wherewith he endeavours to disfigure the beautie and actions of that great Councell upon which the name of God is so gloriously written That the Parliament of England for many years past hath been in Armes against the late King of England contending for their own most just Rights and the native Liberties of the People intrusted with them and which they are bound by all Obligations both humane and devine to maintaine and preserve against all the efforts of Tyranny whatsoever is famously known to the whole world what issue it hath pleased God to put to that great difference by delivering up the power and Person of that King into their hands and what hath fithence been done upon him and declared against his Sonne Heir apparent to those evill Counsels which devided between the Head and Shouldiers of his Father we are in no wise afraid or ashamed to heare of the most railing accusations that our adversaries can bring against us wil unto us be matter of filling our mouths with the praises of our God who hath done terrible things in righteousnesse for the good of his people and hath wrought out for them so great salvation by such unheard of and unparalel'd wayes Neither do we take it for any disparagement to us our Parliament and Nation that we are so vile in the esteeme of this vagabond German a Prince of Fortune whose Highness is nothing else but haughtiness his Principality meer Piracy and the plurality of his Person an affectation so singular that no reall Prince can chuse but smile at who after he was cudgel'd out of England from his Trade of plundering did in a short time after set up at Sea and was even now ready to put forth out of this Harbour and to take his pastime with the Leviathan in the great waters had not this audacious Fleet of Rebels come in the very nick of time to put an Imbargo upon his Highnesse And truely it is no marvell that he hath ever since been so exceedingly transported with choller and foames so beastly at the mouth calling us Rebells theeves and professed enemies to all Government hereby endeavouring to render us as much as in him lies odious to all Nations and Princes especially to the most renowned King of Portugall as by his whole discourse may appear the present scope thereof being to possesse his Majesty with apprehensions of some strange designe intended by this Fleet against the Peace of his Kingdom To that end his way is in the first place to make His Majesty beleeve that this Fleet was procured by the sollicitation of the Spanish Embassadour in London to remain about this Coast till another Fleet should come to joyn with it and having had their ends upon the sacred person of His Highnesse and his fleet to go with the Castilians into the Streits against the French and then to come against this Country This likely tale forsooth is made good by the confession of the Spanish Embassadors Secretary and by the discovery

of some of the Councell of State unto some persons of quality in England and all this must be taken for truth because he within whose principality there dwelleth no lye hath said so And yet it seems his Highnesse is loth to venture the issue of this ground upon the bare credit of that affirmation and therefore backs it immediately with an argument of congruity that may not be denied For who will not beleeve there is some great designe in hand between us and the Castillians seeing in the same Fleet there is come an Agent from the Rebels in England to the King of Castile and at the same time another Agent unto his Majesty the King of Portugall Nay rather who will beleeve this man to be in his right wits that thinks by such absurd and ridiculous inconsequencies as this to put two Nations of so ancient a Confederacy together by the eares The folly of it himself eft-soon perceiveth and so re-enforceth it with many pretty devices of his own making so that the whole Argument with the additionall strength being put into a fighting posture stands thus An Agent from England not thought on till three Weeks before the comming out of this Fleet procured by some Merchants in London among whom the two Bushels who have a Brother in Lixbon a great friend of the Rebels were chief to be sent thither and there by them to be maintained dis-interessed from the publike body of the Parliament is arrived here at the same time that another Agent is employed to the King of Spain ergo there is some great plot a contriving between the Parliament of England and the Kingdome of Portugall How true the particulars of this are I leave to the Gentlemen concerned in it either to refute or make themselves merry with as they think fit But who seeth not that this wild Logick doth stand in need of some bold lye at hand to second it and they never are without a reserve for such uses It is nothing with them to devise Letters to frame Votes to create Misteries and if need be to work Miracles even to the transforming of King Taytam into a Round-head Their study and care is not set much how their devices may be made to look like truth as how they may be fitted to their purpose And to their purpose indeed it would suit very well at this time if he could make his Majesty believe that the Parliament of England is so neer as he most falsly and maliciously affirmeth unto terms of defiance and of making war upon him But to leave him to his own wayes out of which he cannot walk and to come to a speedy close of this tedious discourse the plain truth is thus His Highness being not long since beaten out of Ireland where he had designed the Seat of his Principality and being now by Gods providence shut up in this Harbour whereby his hopes of making himself great some where abroad in the wide world are so suddenly and extreamly disappointed is grown desperate bestirring himself on every side with his lyes as Ajax in the Tragedy did with his whips and is become as one that hath altogether lost both his courage and wit else he would never have adventured to impose such silly gulleries as he hath done upon a King and Councel so prudent and circumspect nor would have violated his own Honour so much as to beg protection and cry out for help at the fight of such an inconsiderable company of Round-heads as we are and as in his jollity he is pleased to make of us For what is it else but an impotency of Spirit over-whelm'd with desperation and fear that hath moved him to such extream impatience to break out into such raving exclamations against our audacious attempt to approach toward his Highness with such hainous and horrid aggravations of the manner of our advance and most importunate imprecations of justice and revenge upon us as if to have assailed his Person and Fleet had been to trample under foot the Lawes of Nations to over-turn the foundations of all rule and right and to dissolve the very Bonds of all humane society in the world Whereas his Highness hath most insolent and outragiously affronted the power and honour of his Majesty even within the command of his Castles as is well known and yet thinks he hath done nothing therein but what is agreeable to his greatness yea the excess and rage of his impatiency and malice against us is such and so boundless that he would fain make his Majesty believe what is scarce possible for a sober enemy to imagine of us That our design was not to end in the design of him and his Fleet but to proceed on to the seizing of his Majesties Fleet bound for Brazeel yea upon the very City it self But what ever it be that the malice or fear of our enemies either hath or shall suggest against us or what art and insinuations soever shall be used by any to make way to those their wicked and scandalous suggestions I am confident his Majesty is far from receiving any such impressions as by them are intended upon him Neither doubt but by this time he is most fully assured both of the sincere and reall affection and earnest desire of the Parliament of England after a firm and perpetuall League of Amity with him and the Nation of Portugal And also of the peaceable intentions of this Fleet and of our innocent behaviour according to our duty in prosecution and conformity to the same And if probabilities may take place I could wish all unprejudiced men to consider whether the Portugal may not with very good reason promise unto himself more advantage and security by confiding in us who are sent out by the Common-wealth of England for the protection of trade rather then in them who make it their trade to spoyl and rob whomsoever they meet almost without any discrimination In us who are onely English the most ancient Allies and affectionate friends of their Nation or in that Fleet whose strength doth most consist of Irish who have ever been and still are most passionately and superstitiously devoted to the Spanish Nation and Party And it is a thing which deserves their serious consideration and examination That there is among them one Mucknell a most malicious enemy to the Portugal Nation who about five years since being Master of the Ship John bound to the East-Indies did most wickedly and barbarously betray a Portugal Governour sent for God with his wife and kindred and 60 servants whom he had taken in at Moseabeck and afterward inviting him and a great part of his retinue to a feast a shore in the Isle of Joanna most perfideously left him there ran away with his ship and being two leagues off in the Island turned the remainder of his company neer about 35. in number most mercilesly into a small Boat to shift for themselves having first stript them of all their

gold and jewels apparel and goods to a great value It were easie upon this occasion to abound in discoveries of that horrid practice of this Generation of men from time to time but that the world is sufficiently full of the cry of them and for my part I take not so much delight in ripping up the villanies of others as in cleering up our own innocency together with the plain and honest simplicity of our intentions and resolutions in pursuance of those commands we have received and to promote as much as in us lies the honorable desires and affections of the Parliament of England toward the King and Kingdom of Portugal which are so mainly opposed by our Adversaries as that which they perhaps apprehend if obtained may prove fatal unto them and their declining party but in all likelyhood cannot but be beneficial and advantagious unto both the Nations Ad. ult March 1650. Bay of Cataline SIR BEcause I conceive our Fleet is much looked upon though differently Some wishing us good successe others contrary and no doubt but you have various Reports concerning us as mens affections lead them I thought good to give a brief Account what Condition we are in at present and what hath happened since our Arrivall that so you might be able to report the Truth of our Affaires to them that wish us well and pray for us The 10th instant we arrived in the road of Cascalis which lyeth from the mouth of this River four mile When we came in the General sent me ashore with a Merchant that came along with us with a Letter to the Governour giving him to understand from whence we came and what we were So soon as I came ashore I understood that Pirat Rupert was as yet in the River any ready to sayl I made no delay but hasted aboard to give notice hereof to the General and Fleet and before night the General dispatched my Lieutenant in company of that Merchant with a Letter to the King of Portugal intimating our Arrival and for what desiring admittance as a friend and Ally This night came down to us Captain Richard Ell Commander of a Merchant ship in the River who informed us of Rupert's strength consisting of Eleven sail Their strength you will perceive by the inclosed Scrole The 11th being the second day of the week a Councel of VVar being called after we had craved Direction from the great God we fell upon debate of what we should do and it was quickly resolved on nemine contradicente that the wind favouring us we should immediately go up to them and ingage forthwith to this effect we weighed our Ship being Admiral led the way with the Bonadventure C. John Harris who was to engage with us following us and so the Vice Admiral in the midst and the Rear-Admiral in the rear but as we drew neer Julians Castle which standeth upon the Point the River going up and hath 100. peeces of Ordnance in it and over against it on the South side the River is another Castle called the Woodden Castle of very good Force Julians Castle began to let flye at us but we kept on our course untill we came almost between the two Castles where falling calme we were enforced to come to Anchor Julians Castle having shot 11 Guns at us and the Woodden Castle four yet through Gods blessing they never struck us we rode there 7. dayes before we came up hither ever and anon having Messengers from the King to treat with us about our going away that so Rupert might get out But the General and Councel of VVar desired to know the Kings positive answer whether he would acknowledge us for his friends or no in case he would for friends we desired the priviledge of friends to enter into his Ports that we might be in safety with our Ships at last not able to do otherwise he assented that seeing the General and Councel of VVar would not agree to depart but upon his peremptory Command for us so to do which he could not do as desiring to hold all fair correspondency with the Parliament he was content we should come in to St. Catalines Bay if the wind should come out and blowe so the 18. day of March we came into this place having first engaged our Words not to use any Act of hostility against Rupert in this Port unlesse provoked first by him or that we have the Kings Assent The 23d day present there came a Gentleman from the King intimating the Kings desire to treat with some Person of quality of our Fleet about our affairs Vpon which at a Councel of War it was agreed on That the Vice-Admiral Capt. Moulton should be the man and to that purpose he had instructions given him with certain Propositions from the General and Councel of War from which he was not to Recide viz. First to demand of the King Rupert's Fleet as the proper goods of the Common-Wealth and the rest belonging to several Members of the same Secondly in case he would not do this then to give us leave to fall on them in the Port Or thirdly to command both our Fleets out together at a prefixt time and that if he should neglect or refuse to go out that then it might be free for us to come in and fall on them within Or fourthly to give us the Liberty of his Port to ride where we pleased for our most advantage we upon the confession of the 4th engaging to use no hostile Act against them unlesse first provoked thereto by them And lastly to give him assurance of our honest Intentions towards himself and Kingdome notwithstanding the Enemies malicious Calumnies set out in a Declaration of Rupert upon our Entrance in The Copy whereof I have sent you with an Answer to it by a Gentleman in this Fleet This night the Vice-Admiral had 4. houres conference with the Conde de Mica the Conde de Tores and the Secretary of State being those of his Councel he had appointed to receive our Proposals and to make them known to him insisting most upon the 2d 3d and 4th Proposals but concluded nothing promising an Answer by Commissioners of their own but to this day it is not come We find the Kings Councel much for Rupert and his designs being animated thereto by the Merchants of our own Nation who are all except four or five of his Party and do not stick openly to wish our ruine yet the King and his Councel are very much perplexed not knowing what to resolve of having formerly engaged themselves for Rupert notwithstanding they would seem to satisfie both Parties in their desires but they discover themselves by their prastises to adhere most to Rupert We hope the Parliament will hasten out the other Fleet after us or some considerable part thereof we being at present but equall in strength to Rupert as you may perceive by the enclosed note that so we may be inabled not only to encounter with the Revolters but with the French also whom the Revolters expect here daily to joyn with them against us Pray God there be none that hinder our Fleets coming to relieve us this is the Sum of our proceedings hitherto thus not having else I commit you to God and rest Your assured loving friend C. THOROWGOOD Remember my kind respects to your Father and Mother and to Lieut. col Lilburn c. Captain Allen my quondam prisoner came hither four or five dayes before us and brought Rupert and Maurice the Order of the Garter and is now in the Vice-Admiral with Maurice it may be our haps to meet with him again A List of Prince RVPERTS Fleet. Prince Rupert Generall Guns Captain Kittleby Admirall Constant Reformation 52 Mr Fernes Master of Admiral   Prince Mawrice Convertine Vice-Admiral 46 Sir John Mince Swallow Rear-Admiral 40 Second Charles Capt. Marshall Captain 40 Eustace Smiths Ship   Capt. Goulding Black Prince 36 Capt. Langley A Scot 30 Capt. Barnily Burly Rowbuck   Mr. Hargroves ship   Capt. Michel Capt. of the Ship that was Mr Jacksons 30 Sir John Mucknel in the Mary 24 The Blackamore Lady is said to be sold 18 The Black Knight 14 Totall 360 The Parliament of Englands Fleet. Generall Blake Guns Capt. Thorowgood Saint George 57 Capt. Moulton senior Leopard Vice-Admirall 56 Capt. Boddilow Entrance Rear-Admirall 46 Capt. Harris Bone-adventure 42 Capt. Baule Adventure Frigot 40 Capt. Saltingstone the John 30 Capt. Benj. Blake the Assurance Frigot 32 Capt. Moulton junior Constant Warwick 32 Capt. Peacock the Tyger Frigot 36 Capt. Pierce the Providence Frigot 30 Capt. VVheeler the Expedition Frigot 30 Capt. Rose the Signet a fire-ship 3 The Whelp a Fire-ship 8 The two Katches 12 Totall 454 FINIS