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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29924	A journey into Spain	Brunel, Antoine de, 1622-1696.; Aerssen, François van, 1630-1658.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5230; ESTC R25951	133,285	256

it is not so where it concerns what they say of the right the English may have to attempt the Indies Such amongst them as are most reasonable and least scrupulous freely confess that by the law of nations Countreys that have made no Treaty or Compact may be assaulted by them that on other accounts are in peace with those which appropriate them So that the King of Spain having in all Treaties he ever made with the Kings his neighbors declared that whoever goes to the Indies either to settle or traffick not being natural Spaniards shall be used as enemies cannot complain of such acts of hostility as are made by other nations since himself hath chosen a perpetual State of war owning neither friend nor ally beyond the Line especially in America To this purpose the answer of a great Spanish Minister is remarkable rallying on two healthes were drank to him one to his Masters Wife the other to his Mistress America says he is my Masters wife and the East-Indies his Mistress for the later he is not so jealous as to think himself concernin honor if any of his friends too freely caress her but his Wife he would keep chaste and rereserved without suffering any to court her Questionless when he called America his Masters Wife he alluded to the Popes Bull which gave him power and propriety in this intended Marriage but it is generally said that a Rape merits not such a benediction since he possesses America without either her own consent or that of her relations Europe Africa and Asia To speak seriously the Popes donation is a ridiculous title to those that own not his Authority besides that a great number of those that do believe not that it extends to things of this nature so that if Spain have no other right than what is derived from Rome she is not well invested in the possession of the new world neither can they which dispute it against her be accused of injustice since some of them say they owe him no obedience and others that he cannot dispose of that which belongs not to him Nothing then appropriates it to Spain but the first discovery to have landed Colonies here and there to have built Cities and Forteresses subdued the Barbarians and given names to Rivers and Havens But all this cannot have acquired a possession absolutely general and without exception and since it made its seisure by the law of such things as are Nullius quae fiunt primi occupantis it hath right to no more than it inhabits cultivates and hath entirely conquered Any Nation may with justice take his part of the remainder and Spain going about to hinder make use of force and by force drive away him that hath settled himself only by force When Philip the second fortified himself by the Popes Bull for invading England he added to that title the most considerable forces that had ever appeared on the Ocean What is spiritual thus stands in need of what is temporal one of them well seconding the other without which admirable conjunction it is very hard to seise what belongs to others The Spanish Council spared neither wit nor industry nor the wealth of the whole Kingdom for this redoubted Fleet in which they neglected not to send fetters to enslave the Inhabitants of Great Britain but their Forces both spiritual and temporal had very ill success and that prodigious Navy which could hardly be compleated in two years was lost in two hours part of it the sea swallowed and the rest fell into the hands of those it went to subdue and of all that proud Armado scarse any escaped to carry the sad news into their Country by which it is very discernable that Heaven does not alwayes correspond with the visible Head of the Church If he disposes of what belongs to the Indians because Barbarians one would think it ought to be restored as they become Christians but their Conversion is to little purpose as to recovery of their Country and the Spaniards very exactly imitate Ecclesiasticks in their acquisitions like so many dismembrings of the Patrimonies of the Laity from whom whatsoever is taken returns no more and if they well keep what they have once laid hands on they can as well cause themselves to be obeyed Their Empire is formidable and he that doubts of this truth may be convinced of it in their Cloysters where such religious persons as have neither dignity or parts to set them out are rather Slaves than Brothers in Christ to the other If within their walls they exercise so absolute a power on those which are as it were their fellow prisoners and make the same profession what will they not do to such as are of a different condition if they obtain the authority they desire and which some of them know so well how to make advantage of under pretence of Religion and directing consciences without fear of punishment forsaking the functions of legitimate Confessors to creep into Families and make themselves arbitrators of their affairs and interests But to return to this Papal Donation it is very clear that this imaginary propriety of a world as yet not well known and of which probably not so much is hitherto discovered as we are ignorant of cannot nor ought not to hinder other people from trafficking there because it belongs to the first finder and that the Spaniards acquired those parts of it they possess without any consent of other Nations to enjoy the propriety and soveraignty of the whole as heirs of it If then the English now attacque the Spaniards in the Indies such as are just acknowledge that this is not so much to begin as to continue a War since they alwayes more or less molested them there and that no formal Treaty concerning that Country was ever made with them I have heard some very curious persons examine what good or evil might by it accrue to either of these Potentates and they hold that the Spaniards would be the first gainers by an immediate seising all that belongs to the English in their Dominion They would find considerable summs in the hands of Merchants of that Nation as well at Bilbo Cadis and Sevil as in many other of their Port Towns which might assist them towards the first charge of the War For we may remember that England hath for many years been possessed of all the Trade of Spain Hollanders during their War and the French since their breach trafficking only by her interposal So that the English have established themselves very considerably and possessed themselves of much wealth in a Country that abounds in money and is poor in Commodities and that cannot receive from its Neighbours what is necessary for it but by their hands We cannot oppose against this Confiscation of the goods of English Merchants in all parts of the Spanish Territories the like to be done to the Spaniards in England for as they never go abroad to serve any forrain

chusing rather to enjoy the fruits of their good fortune than to make an advantageous use of it and to lose the honor and profit of their greatest actions then not to repose and take breath at the end of the course Such politicks belong only to those that have better arms then heads and that value not the Prise so much as the Race nor Crowns and Triumphs as Battails and Victories I mean that preferre the way before the end and great actions above the felicities they lead to To the two high advantages I have mentioned of the Spanish Politicks derived from the great circumspection that attends them a third may be added which is that whensoever they have any design in hand they can so secretly give it maturity that nothing is discovered of it till at once it surprises and ashonishes They work under ground and with much care that nothing of their design takes vent least which may be discovered by their meen countenance they counterfeit sleep when most awake at Sentry and ready to discharge and though at other times very jealous of reputation are not then displeased to have their power decried nor to be accused of weakness that such erroneous judgment may cause their enemies so much to neglect standing on their Gard they may take them unprovided and overthrow those that think them to be in a condition neither to attacque nor defend themselves Shadowed by such secresie and secured by such artifice they have sometimes very sodainly advanced and passing by the conquest of all Sicilia it is known that in our daies they have successfully done this and when least apprehended appeared before Tarragon and Lerida with more forces then they were thought to be Masters of In a word they have ever been secret to admiration and so excellently practised in that politick dissimulation so usefull in governing and that can so well aid it self with disguise that they have often by it obtained such effects as by force they could never have arrived at And when these little Maxims fail of success in warr they have recourse to Treaties and Conferences where they so dexterously make use of them that in one maner or other they gain all advantages can be expected from them On account of which I must needs take notice that they obtain the better in Negotiations by means alone of that flegmatick and extraordinary patience that tires and quenches the heat of other people leading them about through so many labyrinths that at last weary of conferring so long and concluding nothing they comply with part of what is desired and perhaps in conclusion yield to the rest so to purchase that repose Spain seems so unwilling to grant them because sensible of their weakness and that they pursue with impatience whatsoever they have once hoped for Thus by a judicious obstinacy they oftentimes overcome the greatest opposition against what they design and by compliance possess themselves of what they cannot obtain by contestation But to stay no longer on consideration of Policies that have within themselves turnings and windings very particular I will only add that it is conceived something might be amended in their Catholicon I mean in that excess of zeal real or pretended they make appear in matters of Religion It is very evident that this fire sometimes warms Spain to its prejudice and may sooner consume her than convince those she would by it win to her interests And no less known that the Popes are not kinder to her on this account but suspect her passion for the Church of an humane infirmity that stretches toward heaven only to grow higher upon earth and that she gains no friends intirely but a share only of their inclinations by those wayes that make her real enemies that have a perfect hatred and aversion for her In a word her constant designe and to which she seems engaged as by oath not to suffer Protestants in her Dominions and to persecute them in their own is a state secret that hath been so well examined by Catholicks that its true price and value is sufficiently understood by them and no less by those against whom it is directed which causes them to apprehend that on such specious principles she engages to their ruine to satisfie her ambition and that high aim of which she is accused by uniting in one body so many different Dominions to become head of Christendom In the mean time the present composure of Europe and form of the establishment of Christianity considered she ought to cast off this thought and recollect that the two parties into which it is divided are almost equal and if they should come to a shock with the Body of their Forces victory would a long time hover incertain which side to take and perhaps not hers though seconded by all the Roman Legions She ought to understand her Catholicon to be but a thin visard to her Ragione di stato that it hath often discovered the secret which hath been known every where and to examine how small the advantages are of following Maxims that exasperate one party and gain not the other My meaning is she should confine her self within the limits of temporal interest without mixing Religion with it which descended not from heaven to destroy Society and that it will nothing avail her to make so many signes of the cross against Protestants Let her therefore permit them to live and living with them make them understand she hath absolved her self from that vow at least if there were any such which obliged her on all occasions to endeavour their destruction and that of their Church From such a change of conduct she would derive two great advantages for she would be more considerable at Rome by seeming less attached to the interests of that Court and more redoubted by France by diverting part of the inclination of those of the Reformed Religion which it believes it self alone possesses with exclusion of all other Catholick Princes never giving testimonies of open hatred nor persecuting with fire and fagot that which ought to be the object only of prayer and perswasion Having drawn some lines of the nature and qualities of the Spanish policies it remains that I give such a draught of those of the French as may discover part of their extent and Forces that by comparing them we may judge which is likely to get the better of its rival The later are so variable and of a form so transient that hours and moments which ever fly have no swifter revolution and the former are as contrary and appropriated to fixation it is very difficult to paint the one because of the rapidity of its course and no less so to determine which of the two is more potent by reason of the continual conflict they have so long strugled in without yielding on either side One would think they had divided between them all the skill of the Fencing-school and that the one comes on with better