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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75315	The anatomie of the French and Spanish faction. With a full discovery of who they are; and what they have done, from before the beginning of King Iames his raigne unto this present. Declaring in particulars, how the many miseries and the calamities which we have, and do indure by blood, rapine, and many insupportable impositions, have proceeded directly from them, seconded by the ambitious spirits of the bishops. Wherein also all our grievances, and their subtle and horrible plots are instanced; to give a more full and ample satisfaction unto all. Published according to the order of Parliament.		1644 (1644)	Wing A3060; Thomason E35_29; ESTC R20722	7,562	16

in your mouth and now you feele he hath struck you in the mouth I must beseech your Maiesty to consider of it and not deny him in your heart least he should strike you through the heart Many yeares after this were passed away and the King oftentimes in his mirth amongst other doubts would desire to bee satisfied in his knowledge of what Religion he himselfe was and surely at the conference betwixt the Cardinall Du Peron and Monsieur Du Plessis it seems that he was more addicted to the Cardinalls part howsoever not long after it is too well known that passing through the street in his Caroach hee was struck quite through the heart with Ravilliacs knife The hearts of Princes are in the mercifull hands of God who by vile Agents can deprive them of their temporall Crownes to crowne them with glory and happinesse for evermore howsoever this is a true and a sad relation and of great use and consequence in all ages if it precisely be considered I will not trouble you with a further repetition how often in Queen Elizabeths dayes the Spanish faction by Warre by Iesuites and by some great though disaffected personages at Court did advance it self and how often it was suppressed VVhat title the Spaniard pretended to the Crowne even in the evening of her raigne is sufficiently knowne and answered I will passe therefore to the beginning of King Iames his dayes who although hee was a most wise and knowing Prince the Spanish faction found then a greater power to act their designes and Historians a lesser liberty to expresse them Almost at his very entrance into this Kingdome an impudent and wilde Petition was contrived by Father Garnet and other Priests and Iesuites for a tolleration of Religion and preferred to his Majesty but advisedly rejected upon Arch Bishop Abbots grave counsell to the King upon this deniall their Faction growing desperate they enterprised by the advice of the said Father Garnet the Gunpowder treason for which how farre they dived into Hell for counsaile the Devils themselves can witnesse Not long before in eighty eight they practised on the water to overthrow us and now as if they would make all the Elements accessary to our destruction they contrived in the Earth by fire to blow us up into the Ayre And indeed it is no wonder they should so much practise with fire and be so guilty of it who are themselves the fire brands of Hell One would have thought that such a desperate and so matchlesse a designe upon King Peers Kingdome and people should have produced the execution of some Law for the utter extirpation of all Papists and their Iesuiticall adherents but unfortunately such was then the interest with forraign Princes and the King of Spain the entertainment of whose Pentioners being some of our Nobility and Church Papists came to no lesse then three thousand or four thousand pound a yeare that after execution done upon a few the further prosecution of the Law did cease Nay so prevalent was this Spanish Faction with King Iames that by many impertinent sollicitations they induced him to condiscend to many things which have proved since very prejudiciall to him his Royall progeny the Peace of his Kingdome and the Protestant Religion then established For in the first place his Majesty was drawne to conclude a Peace with Spain the most disadvantageous to this Kingdom that ever was for by it no English were permitted to trade into the West Indies and if any did adventure so to do he was to be hanged and tortured without mercy from hence it came to passe that the English who had resolved with the Netherlands for the sending of ten thousand men between them into those parts were so deterred as that our friends the Netherlanders were left to shift for themselves who now have gotten so great a footing in Brasile which is not the tenth part of America yet bigger in scituation then three times England that the Spaniard will never be able to remove them thence And while the English for many yeares sare still the King of Spain hath beene so well inabled by the vast treasures that came from thence to make full and due payment to his Iesuiticall Factors here as that they ever since have performed most faithfull service to him And lest any thing should be wanting to the Catholicke King undertaking the Catholick Cause they perswaded King Iames to arme the King of Spain with two thousand Peeces of Ordnance under colour of which licence Sir Iohn Ieme transported twice as many what others did is not well known but it is conceived by able judgements that if the King of Spain were as well prepared with men and shipping as he is with Guns and Ammunition he might beat us with our own weapons And thus from one degree to another they have still incroached on His Majesty After this with might and main they laboured for and cried up his boundlesse prerogative a thing which Princes are generally over much delighted to hear and by this his Majestie was drawn at last to disaffect Parliaments as intrenching too much upon His Royall Prerogative and regulating the Regall power which never ought to exceed Law but when it rendeth to the relief of the subject in mitigating the rigour of it and not by impoverishing the Subjects and oppressing them with illegall Monopolies and unwarrantable taxations which by wofull experience this miserable Kingdome hath too long felt and groaned under the burthen of them Many more particulars may be alledged as the prevailing power they had with King Iames when upon the motion of Gondamore his Majesty neglected the proffer of some German Princes and condiscended to send his son and heir into Spain for the contract of a marriage with the King of Spains sister and one of a contrary Religion which had it accordingly proceeded it might have proved as prejudiciall and troublesome as the marriage with France But the proceedings of the Spanish Faction since the accesse of His Majesty that now is unto the Crowne I need not recite at large they are all within your owne memory yet for your better satisfaction I cannot but report some few particulars The first is of the laying of their foundation at the Conclave at Rome where it was concluded that his Holinesse should have a Nuntio in England and the Queen of England should have an Agent at Rome to act things here as should be there resolved on Another was to perswade his Majesty by mediation of the Queen whom they too well knew and saw that he entirely loved to prefer those to dignities and Courts of judicature who might serve best to put in execution their mischievous designes whereby it most unhappily came to passe that the Spanish Faction became the Cabinet Councellors so over-awing and over-swaying the greater and better part of the privie Councell that their meer proposals past for resolutions and hence it was that the Starchamber where these and