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A02833	An aduertiseme[nt] to the subjects of Scotland of the fearfull dangers threatned to Christian states; and namely, to Great Britane, by the ambition of Spayne: with a contemplation, of the truest meanes, to oppose it. Also, diverse other treatises, touching the present estate of the kingdome of Scotland; verie necessarie to bee knowne, and considered, in this tyme: called, The first blast of the trumpet. Written by Peter Hay, of Naughton, in North-Britane.	Hay, Peter, gentleman of North-Britaine.	1627 (1627)	STC 12971; ESTC S118431	133,365	164

great Consequence with Candor and Sinceritie I finde that Men of great experience for Warre doe holde opinion contrarie to this beeing of the mynde of King Francis the first who saide that longsome VVarres and small Armies served rather to exercise Men in the Artes Militarie than to daunt the Enemie and that without grosse Armies and quicke dispatch it was not possible to compasse great Enterpryses saying with-all that the Maintainance of small Armies and longsome VVarres was much more chargeable than the other They tell vs that the Empyre of the Turke beginneth to decline for his Pretermission of two thinges which his Predecessours did obserue and follow One that hee goeth not in person to bee over his Armies as they did another that they are not so numerous and grosse as they had them and that light exploits and often leading of small Armies to and froe doeth but teach the Milice to his Enemies and spoyle his owne Countreyes thorow vvhich his Souldiours so frequentlie doe passe Where-of they giue vs this Example Amurat the third kept vnder the commandement of his Bussaes a lingering VVarre of more than twelue Yeares employing not verie great Armies against the Persian vvhere-by al-be-it hee conquered great partes of his Countreyes yet vvere his Losses knowne to bee greater because hee spended the Flowre of his Forces of young Souldiours and lustie Horses 200000 Horses and more than 500000 Men from the beginning to the ende and made desolate the Countreyes that hee tooke in so farre that Osman Bassa alone besides what vvas done by others did cast to the ground and burne 100000 Houses besides that the Persians their Enemies during that great length of tyme did become more skilfull Warriours than themselues The Spanish Warres against Holland Zealand and Friezland haue vvrought the same Effects Agesilaus King of Lacedemonia in his longsome Warres against the Thebaus having one day received a dangerous Blow in his Person was tolde by one of his Friends that hee deserved vvell to haue it because hee had taught his Enemies to bee good Souldiours I confesse indeede that in this point of teaching the Arte Militarie to Enemies vvee can lose nothing beeing rather to learne from them but whether the employing of small or grosie Armies against them shall bee most hurtfull to them before vvee say to that wee must consider vvhat parts of his Dominions doe lye most open for our Invasion and most easilie and profitablie brooked for I take it also as granted that as there must bee Warres so they must bee with-out our Countrey and into that of the Enemie Never an actiue Prince was knowne to looke on vntill the Enemie should bee seene with-in his Bowels There be thousands of Examples of Ignorants who by so doing haue cast away their Kingdome from them-selues Antiochus Persius Iuba Ptolome the last of Aegypt Darius some of the French Kings as King Iohn taken vvith-in his owne Countreyes by Edward the Blacke Prince of England And for this cause Philip of France called the Conquerer vnderstanding that the Emperour Otho the second and the King of England were to assault his Kingdome hee fortified sundrie strong places and led his Armie without the Frontiers vvhere hee did combate and defeat them Wee reade in our Scottish Histories how frequentlie Armies haue bene convoyed beyond our Marches to find the Enemie before he should enter amongst vs. So long as a Countrey is free from open Hostilitie as long it doeth not feele extreame Calamitie sayeth Scipi● Afric for putting of Armies into Africke Plus animi est inferenti periculum quam propulsanti ad hoc major ignotarum rerum est terror c. The Assaulters of anie Countrey must haue greater cowrage than the Defendants who having mo● things and more deare in perill their Houses their Rit●●es VVyues and Children are more taken with feare besides being with-in the Enemies Countrey yee doe discover all his weaknesses whylst your strength and possibilities the more they bee vnknowne to him they doe the more encrease his terrour But to speake of places in generall most proper for this VVarre there is none more honourable than the Palatinate al-be-it most difficill to come vnto by reason of remotenesse from the Sea without the restitution where-of there can remaine no credite with the parties and Princes of the League I heard a Scottish Captaine of good experience in those Countreyes latelie say to mee that it was impossible to recover the Palatinate but by Sea Advantages over the Spanyard because it was so farre remooved from Friends and I did aske him how the late Prince of Parma did leade 10000 Men to Paris in the Teeth of a mightie King amidst his Armies hee answered mee that those were carried as in Trenches and the way was easie without impediment of Mountaines or Rivers Againe I demanded how did the Christian Kings ancientlie of England Scotland and France convoy their Armies to the holie VVarres of Hierusalem and most part over Land or how Alexander the Great an Armie of with-in 40000 from Macedon to the Easterne Occean and did subjugate all the Nations by the way or how Iulius Caesar a smaller by the one halfe from the occident of France to Pharsalia in Greece or Hanniball from Carthage by the way of Spaine and France thorow so manie alpestiere and precipitious Mountaines even to Naples and brooked Italie fifteene Yeares Although themselues were excellent and incomparable Captaines and of extravagant Fortunes yet their Souldiours appearinglie haue beene but such Men as doe yet liue in the VVorld the difference and ods of Tymes excepted for softnesse and Delicacie in some and contemplation and loue of Letters in others haue so daunted and as it were emasculate the cowrage of Men who now are that none is able to endure that austeritie and hardnesse of living with Hanniball him-selfe let bee his Souldiours The next Fielde fitting for this VVarre is that which were most easie to come vnto and likelie to bring the Businesse to a short and prosperous Ende and this is the Countrey of VVest Flanders if this fatall Iealousie of Neighbour-Princes which hath beene so manie tymes contrarious to the best Designes and Enterpryses of Christendome did not heere with-stand that is to say if the French King did not call to mynde how that was the Port where-at ancientlie the English did so often enter to trouble his Predecessours It is a wonderfull thing if Kings so nearelie allyed and so nearelie touched by one Common Danger cannot bee assured from mutuall Iealousies in the meane tyme Nulla fides regni sociis Therefore leaving that to the Event which GOD shall grant I will speake of putting Armies into Spayne by Sea wherevnto it may bee yee will object the small Successes now of a second Navigation of the English to Portugall and that His Majestie had better kept his Navie at home Careat successibus opto quisquis ab eventu facta not and a putet

doe flowrish so slowlie This Prince did purge Granada Valenza Sainct Lucar and Cartagena and planted diverse Bishops seates ritchlie rented This Prince vvas after his death not onlie of Christians but even of Infidels so honoured that Halamar one of their Kings did yearlie sende an hundreth great Torches vvith numbers of his Friends to assist a commemoratiue Celebration vsed to bee yearlie of his Funerals Hee vvas so modest in acceptation of Honours vvhilst hee lived that vvhen the Barrons of his Kingdomes had resolved to erect some Statues to remaine as famous Ensignes of his glorious Victories hee vvould not suffer it to bee done saying it vvas to ascrybe to Man the honour vvhich is onelie due to the LORD of Hoastes For the fourth I vvill make mention of the Spanyards Predecessoures maternall Alphonso the fift King of Portugall vnder vvhom vvere discovered possessed and made open for Christian Traffique the Coasts of Aethiopia the Yles of Capo-verde Arguim Medera Sainct Thomas those of Terzere vpon the Coast of Africke Hee made conquest of Alcazar and Arzilla vvith their Territories After these hee did Knight fiue of his Sonnes for their great and hardie Adventures about these exploits and before their instalment of Cavallerie hee did publicklie in a Church oblish them by a Sacramentall Oath to hard points of pious Magnanimitie for giving their lyues if neede vvere for their Fayth their Honour their Countrey their Prince their Friends and all Oppressed This Prince vvas often heard to say that it importeth ●othing to the Common-wealth of Christendome vvhether this or 〈◊〉 Province vvere vnder the Dominion of Spayne or France or of Almaignie or anie others provyding all vvere good Christians For the fift I vvill say some-vvhat of Emanuell King of Portugall Alphonso the first did cleanse vvhole Portugall from the Moores Alphonso the fift as I haue sayde did vvarre against them in Afrik And this Emanu●ll did persecute them even to Asia and manage hote Warres against them vvith extraordinarie good fortune and is counted amongst the most nominate and glorious Kings that haue beene in anie Age who without removing his Person from Portugall did place the Trophees of his Victories in Africke Arabie Persia and the Indees and fill the Earth with the splendor of his Name Hee made him-selfe full Master of the Barbarian Occean and of the Indish Traffique hee over-threw diverse of their Kings and did over-run the Levant as the Stories show even to the Ports of China hee daunted the Aethiopians about the Cape of Bona-speranza hee built the Fortresses there called Sofala and Mozambi discovered and made Tributaries the noble Yles of Sainct Lorenzo Quiloia and Socotera fortified the Yle of Ormus and made the King Homager and Vassall of Portugall Hee planted a Colonie in Goa which at this day is esteemed one of the most opulent Cities of the Levant Hee tooke in Moluca and frequentlie assaulted Calicute hee did brooke the things left to him in Afrike and super-adjoyned there-to Safin and Azamor Hee bestowed one of the hundreths of all his Revenewes and the tenth part of the Tributes of his Conquests for plantation of the Fayth amongst them Hee sent learned Church-men to the King of Congo vvith vvhom hee vvas in friendship and procured the comming of the saide King his Sonne Brother and diverse Noble-men to Portugall vvhere they vvere taught and received to the Christian Fayth Hee sent Priests into Brasilia And briefe their Histories presume to equall this Prince to Salomon Of this Emanuell Charles the fift Emperour did marrie a Daughter of vvhome is descended the present King of Spayne Charles did follow the same Foot-steps of the Christian Ambition of his Predecessours against the Infidels Hee conquered the Kingdom of Peru where-fra hee brought into the Countreyes of Europe 〈◊〉 infinite Number of Golde and Silver vvhich did on the sudd●e as yee will finde noted heere-after alter the Manners Estates and Traffiques of Merchandise vniversallie of all men Hee restored the King of Tunis and made him Vassall of the Crowne of Spaine Hee did employ mightie Forces at sundrie times against Solyman the great who did then gape most greedilie for to haue devoured Germanie But aboue all the memorie of him doeth rest most sacred for the longsome Toyles and Troubles endured by him and Worlds of Money which hee spent for the pacification of Christian Religion and reformation of the Church of Rome If this fatall and wretched Emulation and Iealousie of Neighbour-Princes had not made King Francis the first to oppose and marre him and if that same had not like-wise made the Pope his Cardinals and all the Prelates and Princes Catholicke of Germanie his Enemies fearing both the greatnesse the good naturall and sinceritie of this Prince of whose fraudelent and vnchristian proceedings with him the Historie of the Counsell of Trent published with-in these few Yeares hath the full and perfect Deduction Alwayes not-with-standing that hee was a rare King whose fame and credite is aboue Envy full of Royall Magnanimitie religious toward GOD and fortunate to Greatnesse a-like to whom there hath beene in these latter Ages if some yet surelie not manie Never-the-lesse I say even in him began to bee seene the markes of this Inclination of the Spanish Ambition to vniversalitie of Empyre in Europe the testimonie where-of was by his owne direction publicklie set vp vpon the Ports of such famous Cities as hee conquered as I my selfe haue seene vpon those of Naples and Milan that too superbe and glorious Superscription Carolus 5. Imperator ad colligenda regna dispersa plantaudam fidem Christianam à DEO destinatus Charles the fift Emperour destinated by GOD to collect together dispersed Kingdomes and to make plantation of the Christian Fayth I confesse indeede that hee in his time went about this designe of Vniversall Dominion by more laudable and Christian wayes than his Successours haue done since that is to say by seeking to curbe the Papall Tyrannie and to revnite the Church of GOD in one Fayth one Governament vnder one Civill Law and I warrand vnder one Prince if hee could And to giue him his due assuredlie hee hath had a most braue and heroicke minde like to that of Alexander the Great of whom sayeth Plutareh to his immortall fame Ni DEVS ille qui Alexandri huc animam demiserat eam praepopere revocasset haud scio an lex una cunctos homines regeret unumque jus veluti commune Lumen ad omnes pertineret O blessed Ambition of those braue Princes before mentionated● now-a-dayes their Successours doe exhaust their Treasures their Wits their Forces to make desolate Christian States as is said and to destroy Christian People whilst their Predecessours did seeke vnder Heavens vnknowne to finde out Desarts vnpeopled or else plenished with Savages and haue reduced them to fruitfull Agriculture civill Policie and Christian Discipline O damnable and cursed Iealousie of Christian Kings and States which doe not permit thir Ambition to

Kings did lose in Battels yea and frequent Battels ten or twentie or thirtie thousand Men when Scotland was not so populous What should wee then doubt nor wee bee able now to make great numbers and that is alwyse easilie tryed by Rolles of Weapon-showes if they bee diligentlie noted and so what doe wee lacke of Warre but Armour Discipline and Mayntaynance And certainlie it is strange that in this great appearance of Warres the two or three yeares by-gone no order hath bene given to bring able men vnder Discipline Wee heare and haue read that even in Spaine when the Countrey-Youthes of vulgar kinde are in-rolled for the Milice and brought to Cities for Discipline they doe looke as most vile and abject Slaues if one haue Sockes hee wanteth Shooes and manie doe want both if another haue Breaches hee wanteth the Doublet pitifull Bodies and our of countenance but when they bee exercised during two Moneths and once put into Apparell then they are seene of most haughtie Carriage and to walke as Captaines in the Streets Why then are wee not to expect the lyke of our People if lyke paines were taken and if in everie Shyre 〈◊〉 Men expert in the Souldierie were set a-worke to in-roll and bring vnder Capt●ines and Discipline those who were most fitting for the Warres no doubt but our basest Clownes should grow both to civill conversation and cowrage There hath never beene yet anie great State carelesse of the Militarie Seminaries not in times of most solemne and sworne Peace As for Allyance Leagues or Confederacio in Warres they are indeede not onelie necessarie but as I haue saide before even naturall to bee for the safetie of smaller States or Princes from the tyrannie and violence of the mightier But with-all they haue beene often-times subject to one of two great Inconveniences either to Pryde for Preferment or Prioritie of place during Warres where-thorow what dangers did ensue in that famous Confederacie for the Battell of Lepanto because of emulation betwixt Don Iohn de Austria and Vinieri the Admirall of Venice the Storie doeth beare it at length and al-be-it it pleased GOD in His mercie to favour the present action yet the rememberance of that Contestation did debrash all farther prosecution of that glorious and holie Enterpryse and vtterlie dissolue that Christian Vnion Neyther is it a new thing al-though I bring this late Example for it The Romanes in their beginnings being confederate with the Latines in a League offensiue and defensiue the Latines did challange Paritie of Governement Si societas aequa●io juris est sayeth Livius cur non omnia aequantur cur non alter ab Latinis Consul datur vbi pars vivium ibi imperij pars Tum consul Rom audi Iupiter baec scelera perigrinos Consules c. If societie bee an equalitie of things Why are not all things made equall to vs and why should not one of the two Consuls bee a Latine Where-vnto the Romanes did answere by attesting Iupiter that it was an impious demande to haue a stranger Consullover them Or againe Leagues are subject to fraudfull desertion of some of the Sociation in time of greatest Danger Wherof the World is full of daylie experience I will remember that of Lodowicke Duke of Milan who vpon malice against the Aragones of Naples did procure King Charles the eight of France pretending some Title to Naples to bring a great Armie into Italie joyned with him a Confederacie of divers of his Friends in Italie But seeing the said King to passe thorow so fortunatelie and to behaue him-selfe as a Conquerour in manie of their Townes and to enter peaceablie in Naples without that anie Teeth were showed against him as the King returned from Naples home-ward the same Duke did negoti●te a League of the greatest Potētates against him who did constrayne him to fight a Battell at Forum Novum vnder the Apennine where hee did hardlie escape with his lyfe although hee over-threwe them I haue tolde you alreadie how Philip the second of Spayne did desert Don Sebastian of Portugall and betray him by a League but of all Examples for this Purpose that is most remarkable of the Confederacie drawne by Charles of Burgundie with the whole Princes of France agaynst Lewis the eleventh where-vnto they were so bended and willing that they did call it Bellum pro Rep. A Warre vnder-gone for the Common-wealth Which Confederacie that subtill King did dissolue as Clowds dispersed with the Wind before they could grow to Raine where-vpon sayeth the Wryter of the Historie De Comines That hee holdeth one partie stronger for him-selfe who doeth command absolutelie over 10000 than are ten Confederates against him al-be-it everie of them doeth command over 6000. To come to our Purpose There are as manie Christian Princes and States true Enemies to the Spanyard as are able to devoure him in two or three Yeares if it were possible to contract amongst them a Confederacie or League of Salt that is to say which might endure without Corruption of Fraude or Emulation And therefore heere must I say that all the Actions belonging to a King are of light importance compared to this to maturelie deliberate both of his owne Forces and of the trustinesse of Confederates before hee doe enterpryze VVare Alwyse when wee take but a single view of our Associates against Spayne wee should thinke it strange why they may not stand vnited beeing al-readie conjoyned by Vi●initie of Neighbour-hood by Consanguinitie Affinitie communion of one Cause against a Common Enemie communion of one Fayth connected I say everie one of them by diverse of these Bandes our Soveraigne the King of Great Britane the French King his Brother-in-law the King of Denmarke his Vncle the Princes of Germanie all knit to the Prince Palatine eyther in Blood in Religion or participation of one Feare of the House of Austria the Duke of Savoy who lyeth nearest to the Thunders and Threats of Spayne having a great part of his Territories circumscribed by them the Venetians who beholde his Garrisons daylie vpon their Frontiers gaping for some good oportunitie of Assault Holland and her Estates who haue beene so long protected and as it were fostered in the Bosome of the Crowne of England now who would not conjecture that this Tygers VVhelpe might bee surelie impailed amidst those mightie Hunters and that it were easie for them to bring him to his latter sweate I scorne heere to call in question what invincible Armies they might assemble by Sea and Land sufficient to robbe him of all that hee hath for it is thought that if after the taking in of Portugall England France Holland and other Confederates had then put into it amongst them all but 30000 Men with sufficient Shipping and Munition they had beene bastant to recover it and King Philip had beene forced to forbeare from the farther troubling of France or Holland And yet to treat this Point of so

to liue with that Pompe and Dignitie which is requisite to conserue Majestie that wee doe know and see That they must bee at hudge Charges by sending out and accepting in of Ambassadours that wee also see That they must giue Pensions and Fees to Counsellours Statesmen Noble-men Captaines and serviceable Gentle-men that wee see Lyke-wise the exorbitant debursment vvhich is in Warre But vvhat secret Bountie must bee bestowed through the VVorlde amongst sure Friendes in the Courtes of other Princes by which kynd of practising they doe often-times best assure their Affaires when all men thinke them in greatest perill that and manie such wee doe not know neither must wee enquyre but when after their death the Histories of their lyues come to bee devulgate then wee finde and reade what these policies of having latent Friends abroad haue imported to the greatest Kings Doe not wee reade of King Francis the first that to Almanes Italians English Spanish Switzers he payed during all his life-time great yearelie Pensions vnknowne to the world for the tyme And of Lewes the eleventh who was a sort I may say of Sorcerer or Enchanter in that kynd of subtiltie to make mercinarie the Counsels of Neighbour-Princes so farre that there was none of them free from his corruption by which doing hee did render himselfe a Miracle to the World for dexteritie of wit to dissolue the strongest Leagues of his Enemies without the drawing of a Sword hee did pay by publicke paction to King Edward the fourth of England 50000 Crownes yearelie but with-all secretlie to his Counsellours and Domestickes 17000 also yearelie which sayeth the Wryter of the Historie was the truest Meanes of the two for the continuance of that Pacification In consideration of these necessarie and weightie Charges ancientlie Subjects were wont to giue freelie to their Princes and frequentlie a Portion of Money that they called Oblations Augustus did leaue behinde him in Testament eleven Millions to bee distributed amongst the People of Rome where-into hee did subjoyne this Testimonie of the mutuall benevolence of the Romanes towards him saying that with-in few yeares preceeding his death hee had gotten of voluntarie Donatiues to the availe of 35000 golden Crownes But now-a-dayes Subjects haue for borne these voluntarie Gratuities in time of publicke indigence to their Princes by reason that some avaricious Kings haue preassed to convert the same to an annuall and ordinarie Duetie as Philip le Long of France having in his ●necessities granted by his Subjects the first impost vpon the Salt of foure Denieres on the pound with this Condition to stand but vntill his Debts were defrayed Yet Philip de Valois there-after did incorporate the same to the perpetuall Domaine of the Crowne saying that there could not bee a more competent thing to come vnder Tollage than Salt where-of all sort of People poore and ritch young and olde had the necessarie and daylie vse Or as King Philip the second of whom I haue spoken having of before annexed to the Crowne Patrimonie the third part of the Ecclesiasticall Rents yet for the support of the Warres where-with hee was greatlie charged had granted to him by the Prelates a certaine summe of Money also of the two-part which they called Subsidie on condition to stand but some few yeares hee also did perpetuate the same to the Crowne But to returne to the purpose of Cases of Weaknesse to bee found into the Empyre of Spaine wee cannot thinke but to bee feared of all and hated of the greatest part is a Weaknesse if it were of the mightiest that ever haue beene Passimus custos diaturnitatis metus sayeth the great Statesman Cicero That Feare can never make diuturnitie of Greatnesse And all men know it to bee true that the Spanyard is feared of all I proue it shortlie by the Church of Rome the Iesuites excepted hee is feared vniversallie to whom hee is most nearlie linked of anie forraigne Amitis Ergo much more by anie other Neighbour-Prince or State the trueth of mine Antecedent is showed by two famous and infallible Testimonies one of the Historie of the Counsell of Trent where a Man shall clearlie see how this Feare did make the Sea Apostolicke directlie to oppose the Grandour of Charles the fift where-of I haue alreadie discoursed For the second I take mee to Cardinall Baronio the most learned and most sincere that hath beene amongst them in these late Ages in his Treatise written against the Spanish vsurpation of the Kingdome of Sicile where hee wryteth thus of Philip the second in whose dayes hee lived in one place Sub vocabulo inquit Monarchiae praeter vnum Monarcham quod vn●m visibile caput Ecclesiae est cognitum aliud in Monarchia Siciliae obortum pro monstro ostento caput Ecclesiae that is to say Aboue one Monarch over Sicilia who is the onlie one visible head of the Church having right vnto it there is risen an other monstrous head and Monarch of the same And in another place there-after Ista sunt quae manus audax ad sacrilegium prompt● abstulit à recitato Papae diplomate Those things haue that bad and bolde-hand readie to sacriledge rest from the Papall Title This Cardinall had an offer of the Papall Diademe made him from Philip the second if hee would call in this opinion but did refuse it preferring his Conscience to what-so-ever Palinodie Next vnto the Pope the nearest Neighbour allyed to him is the French King his Brother in Law of whose daylie Feares and Iealousies of the Spanish Ambition I were ydle to treate heere it being so well remarked of the World Since it is so with his most entire Confederates I neede not neither I hope to call it in question whether the other Potentates and States of Christendome doe much more feare him Therefore leaving those I come to try what probablie is the disposition of his owne People towards him Portugall is of all his thinges in Spaine of greatest importance betwixt whom and the Castilians there hath beene from all Antiquitie not onlie Neighbour Emulation but inveterate malice and as it were a fundamentall and naturall Antipathie of myndes and manners as their owne Histories doe confesse The heate where-of no doubt must bee greatlie encreased by this Castilian Tyrannie so latelie and vnlawfulie throwne vpon them There bee yet manie aliue there who did spende their Blood to haue withstood that Castilian pryde It is an ordinarie speach of the Portugals to say That the Castilians bee worse th●n the Moores who did first inhabite Castile The Portugals are sayde to bee descended of the Gaules their language approaching vnto the Latine The Castilianes againe of the Vandales Iewes and Moores their accent annearing to the Morasque where-of it is saide that the Castilians being amongst the Turkes are easilie induced to deny the Christian Fayth And in this point appeareth to bee a noteable Weaknesse of that Empyre Portugall accoasting to the Sea so

into Africke they did sende Hanniball with strong Forces into Italie to keepe them at home where-of sayeth the same Scipio in the same place and to the same purpose Sed quid veteribus externisque exemplis opus est majus praesentiusque ●llum esse exemplum quant Hanniball potest From the same ground yet the Romanes by sending of Scipio to make VVarre in Africke made Hanniball constrainedlie to bee called out of Italie Quasi eodem telo saepius retorto sayeth one as by a naturall necessarie and ordinarie meane for keeping of anie State peaceable and free from Enemie-Invasion namelie of the weaker from the more mightie For even in lyke manner when the great Persian Monarchs did often afflict the weake and dismembered Estates of Greece gaping at length after the conquest of all Agesilaus King of Lacedemon pitying his Countreys Calamit●e and to divert those mightie Kinges from Greece he did put him-selfe with a maine Armie into the midst of Persia where hee did so daunt the pryde of Xerxes that it behooved him to practise the same Policie for Liberation of his Kingdomes from Forraigne Powers hee sent 10000 great pieces of Golde bearing the Image of an Archer on the one side the current Stampe then of his Coyne to corrupt as it did the Orators of Athens and Thebes and concitate the People to make Warre to Lacedemon in absence of their King and Countreyes Forces where-vpon the Ephorie were compelled to recall Agesilaus who in his returning saide that 10000 Persian Arcbers had chased him out of Asia Againe of the lyke practise to this of Xerxes with Athens and Thebes for mooving and keeping of Warres in Enemie-Countreyes that wee may remaine within our selues free from their Invasion wee reade in the Histories of Scotland that the renowned Prince Charles Magne having an holie and Christian Resolution to prosecure as hee did Warres against the Barbarians and finding the English begun in their prosperitie to crosse the Seas and to molest the Borders of his Kingdome of France hee sent Ambassadours to Aebains King of Scotland to negotiate with him a perpetuall League in these Termes that when-so-ever the English should molest either of their Countreyes the other should moue Warre to England and so constraine them to call home their Armies Which after great Controversies of Opinions amongst the Scottish Nobilitie and frequent Orations of the French Ambassadours was finallie concluded and stood to by their Successours in all tyme following with often mutuall Advantages against their Common Enemie For late Examples I haue alreadie tolde you how King Philip made Warres in France and intended against England and that to the ende they should retire their Forces from Portugall Hanniball did ever affirme namelie to King Antiochus that it was impossible to vanquish the Romanes but at home in Italie as the same Livius doeth testifie Now I thinke yee will come to the Hypothesis and put mee to prooue that the Spanyard is that mightie Enemie who intendeth to trouble this Kingdome That hee is mightie a great deale aboue that which wee would wish I haue alreadie showed and that hee is our Enemie not onelie by actions intended or projected but diverslie alreadie attempted these are the Circumstances which doe qualifie it First he is Enemie to all Christian States by the vniversalitie of his Ambition Ergo also to vs Secondlie his Grandsire Philip the second did once obtaine a matrimoniall right to the Crowne of England by his marriage with Queene Marie Thirdlie a Papall right by excommunication of Queene Elizabeth Fourthlie hee did set foorth a great Armada to haue reconquered it as is before rehearsed Fyftlie hee hath ever since and as I thinke doeth yet maintaine with-in it a claudestine Traffique of Iesuites and Seminarie Priests to alienate the Hearts of Subjects from their naturall King or to keepe them vmbragious and suspended in myndes vntill his better occasion And I doe thinke that besides Ambition puissing him there-vnto there bee no Neighbour-States that hee so much feareth by reason of their strong and skilfull Navigation as yee will heare heere-after more particularlie But this King that nowe is in Spayne hath proceeded farther hee hath reft and taken away the whole estate of the Palatine who is Brother-in-law to His Majestie our Soveraigne and by that deede hath made this Warre to bee defensiue to vs Non enim nobis solum nati c. Wee are not onelie borne to our selues but our Prince our Parents our Children our Friendes Common-wealth and Religion everie of these haue their owne part and interesse in vs and all these together doe concurre to move vs to so just a Warre so far that if that Prince Palatine were not linked to vs by so near Allyance and by communion of one Fayth yet Tum tua res agitur paries dum proximus ardet the propulsion of a fearfull Enemie approaching nearer to our Coastes and seeking to do mineire over all is sufficient enough to make all the braue Heartes of Christendome to boyle Besides these hee hath put vpon vs intollerable Indignities in a verie high degree hee hath made vs by false and persidious Promises to bee as indifferent beholders of his conquest of the Pal●tinate yea more to facilitate his engresse there-to hee hath made vs to seeke Peace perhaps to haue beene accepted vpon disadvantagious Conditions and hath refused the same And hee who refuseth Peace by necessarie consequence doeth intende Warre The marriage of our King hath beene agitated by him and illuded and hee who doeth containe so neare friendship of Neighbours appearinglie intendeth to bee their Superiour And so hee hath left vs no hope of Peace but in Armes therefore wee may conclude with that Captaine of the Volsques of whom I spake before Iustum est Bellum quibus est necessarium pia Arma quibus nulla nis● 〈◊〉 Armi● relinquitur spes Their Warre is just whose Warre is necessarie and their Armes bolie to whom there is no hope relinquished but in Armes Since then I holde it granted that of necessitie there must bee Warres it followeth to consider the Forces to bee employed there-to and those must either bee properlie our owne or of conjoyned Confederates Wee are bred into and doe inhabite a Northerne Region naturallie generatiue of great Multitudes of more bellicole kynde and of more robust Bodies than those of the Southerne Climates And al-be-it wee haue for the first face but small opinion of our vulgar sort because an hard condition of living hath some-what dejected their Hearts during these late vnfruitfull Yeares yet there bee manie strong Persons of Men amongst them who pressed for the Milice and once made acquainted there-with and being fred from the Povertie and Basenesse of their carriage they will more gladlie follow the Warres than the Plough Wee haue numbers of braue Gentle-men wanting vertuous Employments and for the most part necessarie Meanes Wee reade in our Countrey Annals how our auncient