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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81709	A discoverie of the false grounds the Bavarian party have layd, to settle their owne faction, and shake the peace of the empire. Considered, in the case of the deteinure of the prince elector palatine his dignities and dominions. With a discourse upon the interest of England in that cause. By Calybute Downing, LL. D. pastor of Hackney. Seene, and allowed.	Downing, Calybute, 1606-1644.; Downing, Calybute, 1606-1644. Discourse upon the interest of England: considered.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2104; Wing D2102; Thomason E160_8; Thomason E160_9; ESTC R7047	17,489	52

without the knowledge of the Emperor wage proclaime war and peace in their own names and power all which appeares by such authentique antiquity both in lawes and proceedings that the Archbishop of Mentz in Councel at Frank ford affirmed That the government of Germany was Aristocraticall Clapmarius de Arcanis Reipub. lib. 5. ca. 20. giving the Emperor onely the pre-eminence to be President in the extraordinary Imperiall Assemblies So that if the power and priviledges of Bulla aurea morgaged in the hands of the Electors Sleid in fine Philip. Com. inej pa. 200. were duly observed as they would Si non post dira diuturna bella duris extortis pactienibus adempta sint then I conceive that the Prince Elector a Comes Palatinus as Major domus Imperialis as Provisor Supplimentum ●bbatis Vrspurgens pag. 274. Curacius partit on li. 1. tit 32 Vicarius Imperii qui cognitionem habet in gravatoriis contraipsum Imperatorem sententia ejus Imperialis is more absolute than to bee criminally condemned by the Emperor especially for businesse that passed and had the rise in an Inter-Regnum And this that we plead for is not without president in the case of absolute Princes possessed of Feuds and condemned as Delinquents Robert King of Naples was cleared from treason against the Emperour Capycius novis decisionibus Neapol 142. Quia non subditus erat rationè originis sed solum ratione Feudi And if this would have held the French kings had as good ground to take up armes against the Kings of England as their rebels if they offended them during the time they held the Dukedomes of Aquitaine and Normandy as a Feudall Inheritance Or the Emperor may as well war upon the French King as a Rebell being his Delphinate is a feud of the Empire So in like manner he may come upon the Kings of Poland and Denmarke or upon his grand Cousin of Spaine if he dare for Millain and other of his Dominions held as he is a Feudatary to the Empire But sure they may be secured at an easie rate as Charles the fourth for one dinner neere Avygnion Avent Anal. lib. 7. gave up the acknowledgement due Arelatense regnô as Aventine the Bavarian relates it Therefore this ground of war was doubtfull if not unlawfull being unusuall antiquated and suppressed by the consent of the Nations of Christian Europe Secondly It is concluded by wise moderate and indifferent States That satisfaction for the supposed injury hath been taken to the full before this time and the revenge and reparation of a reall wrong ought not to bee driven to the utter ruine especially of otherwise well deserving subjects or weake neighbours lest it truly seeme onely a colour to exercise crueltie tyrannie avarice and ambition As serious Seneca Sen. de Clement lib. 2. cap. 4. Crudeles illos ego vocabo qui puniendi causam habent modum non habent Enough sure it is conceived by all the world except the Iesuited party that Bohemia is fully possessed all the parts of the Palatinate so long detained as a desperate Depositum under various colours of sequestration and morgage to the Emperors use for the payment of the Duke of Bavaria the King of Spaine and the Arch-Duke of Austria as Auxiliaries in the execution of the sentence against Prince Fredericke with the dignity Electorall administred by the Emperors absolute order not to mention the great confiscations So as I beleeve some of the Iesuits so pitty the satisfaction that hath bin taken especially considering the Royal Mothers depriving of her Iointure that if the Prince will but change his faith these wil soone help him to change his fortune And what ever is now pretended and practised the Emperour could not intend to continue the possesssion or the disposure of the dignity Electorall any longer than the Prince Elector Palatine should bee at age to receive them as is plaine not onely in the second condition of restitution tendered by his Imperiall Majesty to the king of Great Britaine but also by the limited investiture Les Conditions de la Restitution entiere du Palatinat del Electorat 1623. Aurea Bulla apud Schafnaburg 279. that Bavaria seemed contented to take it withall which was according to the authentique ordinances of the Empire For Electoris secularis jus vox potestas Electionis ad haeredes masculos pertinent cum ad annos octodecim venerint So that this second ground is no firme foundation for the continuing of the present possession and proceedings Thirdly we may as easily discover that the line in which those Armies marched and mastered was not direct and legal according to the solemne right of waging war this fact might with more ease and certaintie be considered of than the point of right that entred it even as there is more confidence in judging of Mathematicall engines than of morall actions Many manifest passages of praedatory and perfidious ambition were apparant in the manner and time of avancing those Armies towards the Palatinate which well weighed may amount to a nullitie of the right pretended from their proceedings For what solemne justifiable warre was ever yet made upon a neighbour at least in a vindictive way without a legation to treate of injuries and then an indiction and due denuntiation or diffidation as Baldus But this invasion was while a treaty was tendered and accepted from the King of Great Britain in full significant and extraordinary wayes of Embassie and ye● in the interim the Countries surprised and possessed in abuse of Treaty before the face and against the protestations of the present Embassadour and so by the Law of Nations is to bee restored in integrum As for indiction it may bee the Iesuites who innovate in all things have taken to themselves a Faecialique faculty either to antiquate or dispense with it or it may be have passed an Inquisition upon Tullus Martiall Lawes Tullus disciplinam omnem militarem condidit Flor. hist l. 1. cap. 3. especially meeting with them in Tullies Latine which is Language too plaine for such foule carriages to brooke viz. Belli jure nullum bellum justum est nisi quod rebus repetitis geratur Cicer. de offic lib. 1. denunciatum indictum But sure these confident aequivocal creatures are far fitter to be bold Heraulds to proclaime armes or insinuating explorators of Councels Lonigus Aphor. 14. than faithfull Faeciales to judge and determine of causes and just proceedings of warre And so I submit these supposed grounds to their judgment who chuse to measure titles by the line of equity and not by the laist of ambition It remaines then in the next place that we consider the Emperours power and right to dispose of the Palatinate and the dignity Electorall by vertue of forfeiture and seisure as escheated and confiscate to his Imperiall Crown But before I go any farther I must crave pardon by these Ecclesiasticke Statists