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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70701	A treatise of direction, how to travell safely and profitably into forraigne countries written by Thomas Neal ...	Neale, Thomas, 1614-1646?	1643 (1643)	Wing N358; ESTC R3203	36,777	188

thing as to the sole end and Termination ought all our politicall intentions and actions to be reduced to wit that we may profit benefit our Country Neither can there be almost any deed so ingratefull or hainous which doth exceede the treachery intended against a mans Country Because this as a publique parent doth require a higher measure of duty then either respect of father or mother children wife or Kinsemen by how much more publique happinesses and permanencies doth prevaile with all good minds more then private affaires Miserable therefore and most execrable therefore is that impiety and ingratitude which in forraigne or Transmarine regions doth endeavour to disturbe the peace and commodities of a mans proper Countrey wherin it pleased God to give him being and education For this vice of prodition sheweth the will and not the necessity which here hath no place at all And certainely in this kind there are no clearer examples of unnaturall and ignoble perfidy then in that history which the L. Bishop G. Carleton hath entitled a thankefull remembrance of Gods mercy which conteineth the home-bred and forraigne treasons of the English and others intended against the sacred persons of Queene Elizabeth and K. Iames Yet may not forthwith this odious title of a conspirator or Boutefeaux be imposed upon every one which in forraigne parts moveth himselfe something more then ordinary in appearance against the moderne proceedings of his Country For as it seemeth to me these three causes may excuse an active man moving against the affaires exteriour of his owne nation without admittance of the former odious title The first exception is if that a man travell into transmarine regions to this end and purpose that he may by his sufficient insinuations into forraigne affaires profit the same and that he may restore it into a better state by exotique physick being now mortally ill and sicke by the many distempers of ill government The truth of which canon may bee approved by the examples and practises of divers famous and worthy men As of Themistocles which fled rather then travelled into Persia and insinuated himselfe into the fauour of the King by professing himselfe an enemy to his owne nation and by this meanes as also by repressing or moderating the powers of Tissaphernes did more good to his friends at Athens then when he compelled Xerxes to fly through the Hellespont in a single pinnace So Cyrus the Persian monarch receaved into his power the city of Babylon betraied unto him by his Subject Araspis which fled thither for prostituting the wife of Abradates or rather as others report so Darius the sonne of Hystaspis triumphed over the afore mentioned city by the helpe of his faithfull servant Zopyrus as Trogus in the end of his first booke informeth Vs In this manner did Tarquinius sextus yeeld up unto his father the Citie of Gabium having gotten credit from his enemies by betraying some counsels of the Romans and by mutilating or wounding himselfe reporting it to be the cruell deed of his tyrannicall father So Hanniball flying from the destruction of his Countrey unto Antiochus the Indian monarch under pretence of Counsell did more good to his afflicted Countreymen at Carthage then to either Rome or Zusa So Alcibiades although banished by his Citizens and flying to Lacedemon opened certaine passages of state against his Country yet by acquaintance with the wife of Agis their titular King and by signifying their preparations did expell a depending mis●ry from his Athenians So Phocyon Aristides Demosthenes Tullius Seneca and many others ancient and moderne although some were banished and some travelled voluntarily out of their Countrey yet either with their persons or counsells they were never wanting to their friends The second defence against this unhappy attribute may arise from this subsequent originall For it seemeth not unjust that noble men debarred of their titles should enter againe or rather returne into their Countries to claime those honors which are due unto them Wherefore in my opinion Coriohm and Tarquinius are not so much to be reprehended neither yet Edward the fourth of England because in armour accompanied with warlike troopes he returned into his Countrey from Burgundie because they came but to challenge their ancient titles and promised amendement of their former offences The same perhaps is to be thought of Henry surnamed Bullingbrooke which being condemned unto banishment by Richard of Burdeaux King of England under pretence of suing his livery for the Dukedome of Lancaster he being banished Earle of Hereford returned againe before his time into England and landed under this pretence with armed forraigne troopes at Ravenspurg in the North Wherefore those men are not to be thought in my opinion traitours to their Countrey which returne to seek that which by the Law of nations and nature of right belongeth to them neither when they are mingled with the affaires of other commonwealths perchance not belonging unto them but rather contrariwise sometimes dangerous if so bee by these courses they may in future beē profitable to their Country or in some measure without manifest disadvantage unto their Country profit themselves The truth of which affection appeareth in the allowed voyages of many travellours which passed and repassed with good leave unto the East Indias But it is especially to be observed by us that whilst we seeke our owne profit we invade not the rights of other men For if we offer at this unjustice forthwith will without doubt arise amongst us ruine sedition and the destruction of our common-wealth although sometimes perhaps the author be but a meane private man and often that mischiefe followeth which Aristophanes remembreth in the Comedy of the Acarnanians When they come once to late themselves they thrust From one place to another then needs must Whilest each will have the chiefest part the rest Must quarrell and all peace they must detest The third defence against this vice of over much activity or rather bound which keepes it within the order of fidelity yet permits a travellour to mingle Counsels friendly to discourse with the enemies of his Countrey so that he avoide the vice of impious treachery and doth endeavour to doe his Country or Countreymen good And this course without any offence to their citizens tooke Themistocles Thrasibulus Zopyrus Harmodius and Aristogiton Chariton and Menalippus Neanthes Cycizenus and Nicomachus Yet notwithstanding some of these by the unruly multitude had before bin banished unjustly from their Country and grieveously mulcted against all equity Thus by the Athenians Phocyon Aristides and Themistocles yea and that famous Historian Thucidides although derived from the blood of Kings without any of their proper deserts were exiled by ostracismes Of which kind of punishing or rather unjust condemnation of just men Aristoteles thus hath it l. 3. c. 9. of his Politiques These men meaning the confused rabble in this action had no regard to the good of their city but by ostracismes and