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A55316	The politician discovered, or, Considerations of the late pretensions that France claims to England and Ireland, and her designs and plots in order thereunto in two serious discourses / by a true Protestant and well-wisher of his countrey.	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2767; ESTC R23435	23,653	54

very great Oversight to suffer themselves to be charmed by your Flatteries and Cozenages When as Queen Elizabeth redemanded Calais for just Reasons she then alleged the French resolved rather to endure a War wherewith she menac'd them than to surrender it Because saith the same Laboureur there was a double danger one to suffer our ancient Enemies to get footing in the Continent of France and then too because they are Hereticks who would always have a Faction in the State to revive their old Quarrels at pleasure and that it more concern'd us now than heretofore to shut them up with their new Religion on the other side the Sea This was done in the Sale of Dunkirk and if any other place offer it self to purchase France will be no Higler but purchase it at any rate supposing she be discharged of her Wars with Spain Again Queen Elizabeth insisting still upon the Restitution of Calais and speaking of it unto Sancy he after several shifts and excuses By God Madam quoth he can Tour Majesty be so simple as to imagine the King my Master would give you Calais again Which Answer touching her to the quick she demands Bouloigne in lieu of it The King who foresaw the Consequence of the English setting footing once more on French Ground commanded her to be told That he had rather the King of Spain should give him a Box on the ear than the Queen of England should give him a Filip And in troth she had not Calais when the term of Eight Years was expired although according to Treaty it was then to have been surrendred or Hostages and sufficient Security for payment of Five hundred thousand Crowns promised her in case of Non-performance But as usual they fail of their Words and the good Queen onely recovered Six score thousand Crowns at the Treaty of Troys Thus Calais is once again become French France loves her own Repose and Glory too much ever to part with it and the Subjects as well as their Prince are too much in love with it to suffer it slip out of their hands I speak but the very words of the Cardinal of Lorrain There is no Frenchman saith he but would rather hazard his Life than advise the King to surrender Calais and would not more willingly sacrifice his whole Estate than once give his consent thereunto This was spoken like a true Frenchman and their Neighbours should resent such daring Expressions as tenderly as they themselves do if there be any thing of credit in what S'aavedre reports That the Prince's Acquists enhaunce his Dread and Reverence but what he forgoes redounds to his contempt and scorn Francis I. would never engage himself with Charles V. against England fearing left in the Conquest of this Kingdom it should happen to him as it did in the Conquest of Naples between Ferdinand of Arragon and Lewis XII The Emperour being unable to brook an Equal and himself a Superiour Besides Francis should have drawn upon himself a more potent Enemy than him of whom he was rid the Leopards of England being no less terrible than the Eagles of the Empire or the Lions of Castile Yea the Spaniards stifly seconded the English in their demands of Calais confessing That they ought not to abandon them and that if they were not protected they very well knew Spain would be next ruin'd so that their own Losses would be greatest This is written by the Cardinal of Lorrain Spain then reason'd solidly and judiciously In prospect of this Henry VIII coined Medals of Gold on whose Reverse a Hand appeared out of a Cloud holding a Pair of Balances in equilibrio the two Scales whereof signified France and Spain with this Motto He wins on whose side I turn Queen Elizabeth governed her self by the same Maxim and assisted Henry IV. so long as he was weakest but seasonably forbore when once she saw him start up beyond his just and proper bounds and at that time told Sully That neither France nor England nor any others had any thing to do with the Low Countries and that she would never endure the French King should gain so much as one inch of ground there And when as Pope Clement VIII told Cardinal Ossat that England hated France implacably he replied At this time England hates Spain more and that they ought now to regard the present state of Affairs which had united both French and English against a common Enemy by one common Interest which was evermore the strongest and securest band among all States and Princes This Reason which once serv'd the turn of France shall at another opportunity do Spain a kindness Because Kingdoms are not to be reputed strong or weak as they be in themselves but as they hold comparison with their Neighbours and from proportion wherewith they are adjusted one unto another Du Plessis sent this Message to Walsingham in England not to abandon Henry IV. nor the German Protestants Let 's see whether we may not use those self-same words to evince the true Interest of England Charles I. was convinc'd of it and Charles II. hath been also and will be possibly yet more when like a great and deep Statesman he shall be pleased to penetrate into the future And it is not to be doubted by the way he begins to take and by what he had done formerly in Person at the Head of his Army that he will not suffer himself to be over-reach'd by false Reasonings nor give his Slanderers occasion to say of him as of his Grandfather King Iames That he knew not how nor ever cared to manage businesses nor would once put his hands to dispatch them till such time as both means and opportunities had quite forsook him I don't doubt but that Charles our gracious King who now reigneth will recollect what happen'd how and by whom unto his Father and what manner of Treatment he met withall in France even with no less than Banishment And for all possible Allurements from the French he may be fully confident of receiving the same measure from them again if the same occasion were which God forbid or if he quit Spain with his own true Interest and that of his Kingdom which subsists by Commerce to imbrace the Humours and Private Interest of half-sighted and corrupt Ministers France debitting none other Commodities than her Brandies and Apish Gewgaws in lieu of those substantial Merchandizes England hath of her own and importeth for all Quarters of the habitable World And when Realities are forsaken and Deceits and Cheats taken immoderate and restless Spirits do ordinarily take hold of such sensible Arguments to alienate and imbitter the Hearts of the People which though frequently too too querimonious yet gracious Princes without humouring them in all their childish Cravings will nevertheless comply with all that shall be manifestly for their solid Good It were a pleasant story to relate the Civilities of France to Edward IV. who being at a pinch and driven out of

this Design be delay'd and leasure given France to debase Spain then all must yield to the rapid course of that Nation who is now making Chains for us nay carrieth them with her to bind and enslave such who shall first make head against her and at long run of all those who either secretly or openly maintained or abetted this horrible Design against the common and public safety And let her Neighbours be once brought down England devested of her Friends will be little more than the work of one day and must fall in that very moment she is Assaulted The pretext is ready either England shall lose the Title of France or France will usurp that of England I 'le explain my self somewhat more largely Faance being now rid and standing in no longer fear of her Competitors will infallibly break with England imitating herein Queen Elizabeth who quarrell'd with Francis the Second for Entituling himself Heir of that Crown she possessed and whereof she was exceeding jealous Mary of Scotland having furnished her Husband with a Title But suppose this colourable pretence be neglected yet will he serve himself of one more remote for who so hath a mind to pick quarrels and wage War will never talk so big and loud as the whole World may hear him I 'le not lead you far to fetch an Instance Lewis Son of Philip Augustus King of France reigned in England maugre all the oppositions of King Iohn who was deposed for his Tyrannies At length Iohn having recollected his miscarriages reconciled himself with the Pope becomes his Tributary demulceth his Holiness with his golden Promises and profound Submissions and Lewis unfortunately loseth his newly acquir'd Crown 'T is true he bequeathed the Right thereof such an one as it is unto his Successors who preserve it carefully and assert it publicly in a formal Prayer sung in these express words at their Coronation viz. That he will never relinquish the Scepter of the ancient Saxons Mercians and other Princes who have reign'd in England And therefore the Kings of France since Lewis the Eighth may with more justice say they assume the Title of Kings of England than the Kings of England style themselves Kings of France It was Ribbir that set up this imaginary Title and suggested unto France a pretext and ground for falling out with England upon the first and next favourable opportunity I have given her the first Intelligence of the Thunderbolt England may yet in time avoid it Is it to be imagin'd that Lov●is and many great ones whose Fortune and that of their Friends depends upon Warlike Employments will not now stir their King to those new attempts against England in case they want other Employment shewing unto him the easiness of it from the Divisions Jealousies and Unprovidedness that England is in and the many secret Friends they have here But in case they did alter these Measures or not now execute them yet seeing our forwardness and our Spirits Eyes and Arms to be up and ready for them that I say will make still our conditions better with them whether we stand their Enemies Friends or Neuters otherwise they will be more apt to slight both the one and the other But lastly let 's give Interest leave to follow Revenge and shew what Measures we ought to take from the Consideration of this cogent Topic. I confess the Motive is interwoven with that of Glory but yet more firmly because it runs on two Principles and both of vast weight and consequence the one is particular and private Interest the other is more general and public This last aims at the common Repose of Europe and its care and perpetual endeavour must be to restrain the Ambition of those two great Potentates who court the Empire which cannot be effected without conserving England's Peace at home and confining those two inraged Neighbours to their just and respective Bounds that if one of them should win any thing from his Rival he may not presently invade England who became an idle Spectator of their Actions without cherishing their mutual Enmities and giving a Curb to their several Enterprizes If Reason of State speaks loudly in deaf Ears Glory doth it in shriller and clearer Terms But over and above this general Peace of Europe wherein I could wish England were occupied there is somewhat in special that should rouse her up from her present Lethargic drowsiness viz. That France brags how facil it is to blind her Eyes and cause her to take what new Measures she pleaseth You will say these are points of grand Importance Convince England of them Well! I shall debate of both immediately Let 's first touch at this of the common Safety and we will in the next place consider of the proper means to bound France that she may not abuse their Credulity who can certainly and absolutely mortifie her Marillac Ambassadour for Francis the First thus writes to his Master from London that the English were displeased they had suffered the French to fortifie Ardres and that before it was too late they would hinder the finishing those Fortifications Adding That they were vext to the Heart that the King had fortified Ardres and that they repented very much to have permitted our men proceed so far that yet notwithstanding they had time enough to reduce matters to their former state because they had been informed that Ardres could not yet in one whole year be so repaired but that it might be as easily forc'd But if Ardres which is no more than a shadow of what France possesseth in the Low Countries did heretofore strike a Jealousie into England should not that gross multitude of important Towns and the Thirds of a large and vast Estate render her now by far much more jealous especially since it hath given such fearful and violent shocks unto the whole Land made another Neighbour Republick tremble yea and it trembles to this very day at their near Approaches the French Armies being led on by a mighty Captain trained up in the School of business enur'd to Hardships and fortunate Successes in all his Conduct and Administrations And Ardres to lay nothing of Calais and Graveling is something less than Dunkirk if it be considered according to the present Estimate that France doth set upon it These two places are the two Ports from whence one day the Storm shall be wasted over into England if England suffer France to incorporate the Naval Forces of Holland with her own and to inoculate that fair Bud into her Imperial Crown Persons of the weakest Understanding may without difficulty penetrate into the Issues and Successes of such an Union And let it be remembred that France was formerly invenem'd against England for redemanding Calais and having once got it out of the Spaniards hands she wanted neither Armies nor any other considerable means to make a sure and speedy Conquest of other places If Fear then bounded their proceedings because it was not so easie a

art or power When by such Artifices the French and Jesuit had blinded some Dissenting Zealots with specious Pretences of removing evil Councellors and of some Incroachments then things being ripe the greedy Lawless Souldier is brought on the Stage to make our King and People bleed together without seeing the Hook but too late when at first moderate and impartial Counsels might have healed things if they might be suffered to come to an understanding and to touch the Root of the Disease Sed quid haec ingrata revolvo But remember in a word That whether Times tend to a further Dis-union of Spirits or to a thorow Union yet in either Juncture the Judgment of God and Man will soon find out those base Sinons those Incendiaries those French Pensioners and Lawless Statesmen that seek to divide the good Father and his poor Children and to rent miserably their own Mothers Bowels for private ends by unworthy Policies And those Persons or Party whatever it be which recede most from French Devices and Popish Forms and shall in their plain meaning and counsels tend but to close to the honest Fundamental Laws of their Countrey and of the Gospel after a simple loyal and charitable Interpretation they and only they shall prevail and be in request with their King and Countrey at the long Run for that God will be above Man In fine I refer to the Reader to judge and to our Superiors to determine Whether the mean proposed in the following Discourse which lay by me be so seasonable or practicable which however I meant to be of this use to make a Diversion of all Englishmens inward bitterness and choller against a more fit Object and Enemy that they may cease to look upon one another with a sharp Eye but look off rather towards abroad whence the Spring of our Divisions come viz. from France and Rome THE French Politician FOUND OUT THat the greatest dangers of Spain were from England by reason of our power at Sea and that we could block up the Spanish Ports at pleasure this our Monsieur believed as firmly as if it had been an Article of his Creed and that the Plot as he had laid it in its success was Infallible 'T is a Truth But if it were some years ago the Interest of this Crown to accord to that Maxim Time and the present weaknesses of Spain sinking under its own burdens have turn'd the Ballance and made it impracticable The Face and State of Affairs are now very much changed Henry the Seventh was too nearly allied with the House of Burgundy and Ferdinand the Catholic not to have oppos'd the Cabals which were then formed against Mary to bereave her of the Low-Countries His Son Henry the Eighth followed the same Counsels and if at any times Charles the Fifth was travers'd by him it arose from that just Apprehension he had of his growing Grandeurs Fortune being more favourable to him than to Francis the First whose loss had been a fair Step unto his own Queen Elizabeth harboured the same Jealousies for Spain puffed up with a long continued course of prosperous successes was not arriv'd to that pitch of Declension we see it now adays And if Charles the First beheld with an Eye of Envy the progress of France Charles the Second might do it also his Fear being much more warrantable because that Kingdom is grown more powerful more formidable than when his Father reigned And there be Arguments of Glory Revenge and Interest for my Assertion all which according to the best of my judgment are strictly interwoven one within the other Glory demands the continuance of the triple League because this had twice bridled a Prince who had slip'd out of it and who without this Restraint would have over-run all bounds by reason of his unmeasurable Ambition the sole and unvariable Rule of all his Undertakings Besides it can be no dishonour unto England to be reproach'd of France as heretofore of slackness in assisting her and that we loved to prolong and foment her Civil Wars if not to make them perpetual Revenge is yet another and stronger Motive to invigorate us in our conduct whether you reflect upon what is past or on things present For the present 't is well known that the French promises are only tendred us for the better inabling them to play their own Game and the mischiefs they are now a brewing should now inspire us with a greater abhorrency of their greater masqued Villanies Moreover those brave Methods propounded by our French Politician for the subversion of this Kingdom whose Glory Eclipseth theirs are no longer with any patience to be endured Add farther that injurious manner wherewith they treat England because it carries the Ballance of Europe and supports the Oppressed against their Violence and Tyranny And could we not remember those Invectives wherewith they have wounded the whole Nation yet this should be considered that they never spared the Sacred persons of our Princes Ribier is pleas'd to strew these sweet Flowers upon Henry the Eighth viz. That he was the most Infidel and unconstant Prince of his Age full of Tentation and Double dealing whose Soul Symboliz'd with the Seas environing his Island And the fore-mentioned Author of the French Politicks adviseth that the King now reigning should be voic'd a Roman Catholic thereby to procure him his Subjects hatred and to Augment it be feigned Letters written to some of the leading Protestant Lords to render them suspected and procure their Ruin by a Maxim which with extream imprudence they themselves have divulged to the World These Counsels and Invectives were all forged by them because Henry would not turn the Scales wholly of their side to destroy Spain and England in consequence thereof which without this invincible Obstruction must have been together by the same Torrent overwhelmed And as to what concerns Charles the Second that general interest in which insensibly he is engaged affords Alliment to a damn'd Plot which is by them secretly carried on against him But I pass this by and come to the Question under debate And it is this That the Consideratian of what is past should so far influence a potent Prince who hath his Sword in his hands as to carve out his own satisfactions from them whose insensibleness of doing wrongs raiseth them to such a degree of Insolence as to deride us Aquitain Normandy and their dependant Provinces together with Guysnes Ardres Bouloign and Calais ancient Demeans of the Crown of England are such important pieces and their Conquest so easie that they will surrender themselves as soon as England shall seriously invade them provided that the Obligation of the League and Powers composing it remain firm and inviolable and that from a meer defensive War we become Aggressors and despoil him of those Trophies who after the glorious Example of his Ancestors hath enlarg'd the bounds of his own Dominions on the wrack and losses of his Neighbours But and if