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A03452	Obseruations concerning the present affaires of Holland and the Vnited Prouinces, made by an English gentleman there lately resident, & since written by himselfe from Paris, to his friend in England; Spiegel der Nederlandsche elenden. English	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 13576; ESTC S116935	38,409	134

begin to speake of Queen Elizabeth of England her assisting the rebelled subiects of Holland against the King of Spayne it is not impertinent to the purpose to call to mind whether there were any cause of emnity giuen vnto her by meanes of any wronges or iniuryes offred her by the King of Spayne in former tyme in regard wherof she might now take the oportunity of reuenge This King Philip the second of Spayne hauing beene maryed in England to Queen Mary was neuer known to haue beene disaffected to the Lady Elizabeth for so was she then called but cōtrary wise did shew himself to be the greatest freind ●he had in the world which hee●e in briefe to declare you must nore that this Lady E●izabeth being then a subiect vnto her sayd sister Queen Mary chaunced to fall into sundry troubles for which she was imprisoned in the Tower of ●on●on and retayned in durance at Woodsto●k and other places M. Fox the Author of the English Protestant Martyrologe wryting of this Ladies inprisonment declareth not any cause why but because he putteth her in his history of others that suffred for protestant religiō he intendeth to haue his reader imagine her to haue suffred some persecutiō also for the same cause whereby he thinketh not a little to honour her But had her troubles beene for Religion indeed Fox would then neuer haue omitted to set down her examinations about the same and her answeres thereunto in defence of some such poin●s as are in controuersy betwen Catholiks Protestan●s as about the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament or about prayer to Saints or prayer for the Dead or some one or other point as wel as he hath set down the examinations and answeres of so many others to their great glory as he takes it but heer is nothing found Fox in this in silent and leaues his reader to imagine of himself that it was for religiō For something it was but that it was for religiō be could not make manifest for that this Lady in al the tyme of the raigne or her sister dayly did heare Masse went vsually to Confession and in all points shewed her selfe a Catholike yea three weekes after she was proclaymed Queene she had Masse in her own Chappell in the Court and permitted it to be sayd in all Churches throughout the whole realme for the space of seauen monethes after which is no signe of being so resolue da Protestant as that she would suffer imprisonment for that religion Her troubles in very deed were for sundry offences against Queene Mary her sister which being found to be such as might perhaps haue cost her her life if they had come vnto publique triall of Iustice the King of Spayne was so greatly her freind that he stayed the proceeding thereof and so not only saued her life but quit her also from the publike blot and stayne of treason and heerin he was so earnest that on a time when she was to haue come to her answere he did so importune Queene Mary his wyfe to let the matter passe in sylence that she sayd vnto him My Lord You speake very earnestly now for her but I pray God she do not one day make you repent it A certaine Spainsh Author wryteth that the King was therevnto also moued vpon some consideration of state for Queen Mary of Scotland being then maryed vnto the french king Francis the second if the Lady Elizabeth had dyed there had in apparence byn great possibility that the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ir●land might come to haue beene annexed vnto France the sayd Queene of Scotland being the next heyre in bloud vnto them all Queene Mary of England at last hapning to dy King Philip her husband notwithstanding the caueat giuen him by his late deceased Queen did so cōtinue his good affection vnto the now Queene Elizabeth that being then in the Netherlands he sent ouer vnto her Monsieur de Assonuile to congratulate her aduancement and to signify his gift vnto her of all Queen Maries Iewells which being his owne he might iustly haue detayned vnto himselfe if he would These Iewells she seemed very thankfully to receaue and sayd vnto this Monsieur de Assonuile that she thought her brother the King of Spayne might thinke much in her for change of religion but quoth she there is but little difference betweene his religion and ours almost all that he hath in Latin we haue in English and we do not as others do for we mayntayne a clergy of Bishops and other Prelates so vs we are in effect as before And whereas there was held a treaty of peace between the Spanish French Kings vpon the taking of S. Quintins the king of Spayn would yield vnto no agreement with the French vnlesse it were also conditioned that Callis should be restored backe vnto Queen Elizabeth of England and heerin were his commissioners that treate● with the French so earnest that in the end the french to be rid of their importunity were faygne to confesse vnto them that they knew that they tooke more paynes then they were desyred to do for that the English had playnly told them that they had not set them on work in any such busynes which was a signe that they desired not to be beholding vnto the king their maister Of which whē the king had knowledg he stood no more vpon the rendring of Callis but concluded his peace with the french without it which as thinges did afterward fall out proued a happy turne to himself These proofes of this Kings good will vnto Queene Elizabeth being thus made manifest to the world who would haue thought that she would not only haue omitted all signes of gratitude but within a litle after become an enemy to such a friend yea and so great and capitall a one as seldome any History can giue witnes of the like Seeing then that no acts of gratitude are to be sought after let vs then see what effectes of emnity ensued insteed thereof First then to begin withall omitting her refusall of the King of Spaynes kind endeauours for getting the French to restore vnto her the Towne of Callis we will returne vnto the duke of Alua his expected prouisiō of money from Spayne mentioned in the former Chapter This prouision be●ng the summe of six hundred tho●sand Ducates comming out of Spayne 〈◊〉 the Netherlands in the moneth of D●cember in the yeare 15●1 was on the West coast of ●ngland seized vpon and a●rested by the English By meanes of which wrongfully detayning this money of the King of Spaynes the D●ke of Alua was forced to demaund the tenth pennv of euery mans goods that was of ability for his supply ●ut this demand of his caused chiefly thorough the said English arrest was cause of a far greater detriment vnto the King of Spayne then that wrongfully deta●ned money came vnto so as the one great wrong was the cause of another far greater For heereupon

example of the carriage of the chiefe Nobility and of the better and wiser sort towardes the sayd Ambassadour and Nation nor chiefly and aboue all his Maiestyes amity friendship with the King of Spayne and the feare of his indignation and punishment due vnto such barbarous insolencyes CHAP. III. Whether England hath receaued any benefite by defending the quarrell of the Hollanders or whether the Hollanders haue endeauoured to deserue the friendship they haue receaued frō thence or haue any way shewed themselues gratefull for it TO examine and search out the benefits which England may haue receaued by meanes of the Hollanders I know not whereor which way to begin The Hollanders or their friends may perhaps say that it was a benefit great inough for the English to assist them in reason of state because thereby they kept out warre from their own Country But what an excuse this is when as the English neuer needed to haue feared warre in their own country but for their cause and for taking their partes for it was for their cause that the English seized vpon the six hundred thousand ducates which were sent out of Spayne to the Duke of Alua which was a capital cause of enmity and indeed the only cause that enforced the sayd Duke to demand the tenth penny of the peoples goods whereby the whole common multitude became disposed the sooner to rebellion For the king of Spaynes money was not detayned by the English vpon any couetous desire to haue it for themselues but because the Duke Alua should not haue it to employ against the Hollanders and that it might be transported from England vnto the Hollanders so come to be vsed by them against the sayd Duke to whom it was sent to haue byn imployed against them for their Rebellion But it may be further alleaged in excuse of the Hollanders that they were so gratefull as they offred vnto the Queen of England the Soueraignty of the Netherlandes which benefit she would not accept of and therefore it was not their fault that if she obtayned it not To this may be sayd that the Diuel offred to haue giuen Christ all the kingdoms of the world if he would haue worshipped him and so was more liberall of giuing that which was none of his own then were the Hollanders But the Queen well knowing that by accepting this guift whereunto they had no right she should haue been sure to haue drawn a perpetual warre and the whole charge thereof vpon her shoulders and therefore refused this their liberality yet was she willing notwithstanding to ayde them without this obligation And the reason was because she still retayned a hop to be wholy disburdned or at least much holpen in the bearing this charge by France or Germany or by bringing the Hollanders to the full possession of the whole seuenteen Prouinces wherby they might depend vpon themselues It may also be alleaged that she had the Cautionary Townes of Briel Flushing the other places deliuered into her handes True it is she had so and thereby enioyed the benefit of being at more expence both of men and money Other benefits can I remember none nor can there be any found so will spare the labor to look any further after them yet because ill turnes and domages may more readily be discouered to haue heereby happened to the Queene and state of England I shall set downe what in this kind I haue obserued First then to begin with the afore mentioned Cautionary Townes it appeareth that because the Hollanders would so soone as they could be the freer to set the English at naught hauing by meanes of the Truce with the King of Spayne and the Archduke Albert gotten togeather some spared money they so laboured with their feed freind Sir Raph Winwood a better Hollander then an Englishman that for paltry payment they got their brydle out of the English handes and thereupō began straightwayes to shew their gratitude in forbidding the bringing of English dyed and dressed clothes into Holland and their adioyned Prouinces without euer making the king or his Ambassador Ledger at the Hage priuy thereunto Soon after to make amendes for this their saucy and vnmannerly carriage they came to offer the Kings Maiesty himself a more insolent affront For whereas the Duke of Lennox as Admirall of Scotland by order from the King had sent one M. Brown in the yeare 1616. to demaund of the said Hollanders then fishing vpon the coast of Scotland a certayne ancient duty called Size herring with much a do they payd it as in former tymes it was accustomed but yet withsome speaches that it was the last tyme that it should be payed The same M. Browne cōming the yeare following with the same authority and commaundement with one ship of the Kinges only to demaund the duty afo●esayd and with order that if it were denyed he should take witnes of the refusal in writing and so peaceably depart being come aboard one of their ships and demanding the aforesayd duty he was by the Maister therof denyed it who told him playnly that he was commaunded by the States of Holland not to pay it vnto the King any more of which he tooke witnes according to his order from his Maiesty Whyles this was a doing there comes aboard that ship the Maister of of another ship of Holland demaunding of M. Brown his name he replyed that his name was Browne Why then quoth he if you be the man I haue order to arrest you and to carry you into Holland whereof M. Brown gaue notice to the Maister of the Kings ship requyring him to aduertise his Maiesty of this insolency and so M. Brown was arested and carryed away prisoner into Holland About this tyme as I also haue heard it credibly reported one M. Archibald Rantkin a Scottish gentleman residing at Stockholme in Sweden there soliciting for the payment of certayne money due vnto some Londō Merchāts one Van dyke lying there also as Agent for the States of Holland sayd vnto some principal persons of the Swedians that they needed not be to hasty in paying the king of Englands subiects any money or to giue them any respect for that the sayd Kinges promises were not to be belieued nor his threates to be feared For which villanous and insolent speaches being afterward challenged by Rantkin he had no better excuse then to say he was drunke when he spake them for deny them he could not and so his excuse of playing the beast excused him for playing the man But now from these insolent affronts and speaches let vs come to deeds and see how they haue vsed our English Nation in the North seas on the coast of Groonland those partes about the trayn-oyle fishing where they haue offred them sundry abuses by giuing them blowes chasing them away and doing vnto them diuers oth●● detriments not admitting to vnderstand that the sea fishing is free for euery man