drooping condition and it was only sustained till they could bring their ends about Which our King now suspecting as he had good cause from the constant intelligences given him of the diminution of his own Forces in the Palatinate and the Growing strength of the Enemy He dispatches this second Letter to the Baron Digby to let the King of Spain know how sensible he was of being abused and how loath he was to see it RIght Trusty c. There is none better knoweth than your self how we have laboured ever since the beginning of these unfortunate Troubles of the Empire notwithstanding all opposition to the contrary to merit well of our good Brother the King of Spain and the whole House of Austria by a long and lingering Patience grounded still upon his friendship and promises that Care should be had of our Honour and of our Childrens Patrimony and Inheritance We have acquainted you also from time to time since the beginning of the Treaty at Bruxels how crossly all things have there proceeded notwithstanding all the fair Professions made unto us both by the King of Spain and the Infanta and all his Ministers and the letters written by him unto the Emperor and them Effectually at least as they endeavoured to make us believe but what fruits have we of all these Whil'st we are Treating the Town and Castle of Heidelberg are taken by force our Garison put to the Sword Manheim besieged and all the Hostility used that is in the power of an Enemy as you may see by the Relation which we have commanded our Secretary to send you Our pleasure therefore is that you immediately as soon you can get Audience let that King understand how sensible we are of these Proceedings of the Emperor towards us and withall are not a little troubled to see that the Infanta having an absolute Commission to conclude a Cessation and suspension of Arms should now at last when all Objections were answered and the former solely pretended Obstacles removed not only delay the conclusion of the Treaty but refuse to lay her Command upon the Emperor's Generals to abstain from the Siege of our Garisons during the Treaty upon a Pretext of want of Authority so as for avoiding of further Dishonour we have been forced to recall both our Ambassadors as well the Chancellor of our Exchequer who is already returned to our Presence as also the Lord Chichester whom we intended to have sent unto the Emperor to the Diet at Ratisbone Seeing therefore that meerly out of Our extraordinary Respect to the King of Spain and the firm Confidence We ever put in the Hopes and promises which He did give Us desiring nothing more then for his Cause principally to avoid all occasions that might put Us in ill understanding with any of the House of Austria We have hitherto proceeded with a stedfast patience trusting to the Treaties and neglecting all other means which probably might have secured the Remainder of Our Childrens inheritance these Garisons which We maintained in the Palatinate being rather for Honour sake to keep a footing until the general accommodation then that we did rely so much upon their strength as upon his friendship and by this Confidence and Security of Ours are now exposed to Dishonour and Reproach You shall tell that King that seeing all those endeavours and good offices which he hath used towards the Emperor in this business on the behalf of Our Son-in-law upon confidence whereof that security of Ours depended which he continually by his Letters and Ministers here laboured to beget and confirm in Us have not sorted to any other issue than to a plain abuse both of his trust and Ours whereby We are both of Us highly injured in Our Honour though in a different Degree We hope and desire that out of a true sence of this Wrong offered unto Us he will as Our dear and loving Brother faithfully promise and undertake upon his Honour confirming the same also under his Hand and Seal either that the Town and Castle of Heidelberg shall within Threescore and ten dayes after your Audience and Demand made be rendred into Our hands with all things therein belonging to Our Son in law or Our Daughter as near as may be in the State they were when they were taken and the like for Manheim and Frankendale if both or either of them shall be taken by the Enemy while these things are in Treaty As also that there shall be within the said Term of seventy daies a Cessation and Suspension of Arms in the Palatinate for the future upon the several Articles and Conditions last propounded by Our Ambassadour Sir Richard Weston and that the general Treaty shall be set afoot again upon such Honourable Terms and Conditions as We propounded unto the Emperour in a Letter written unto him in November last and with which the King of Spain then as We understood seemed satisfied Or else in case all these Particulars be not yielded unto and performed by the Emperour as is here propounded but be refused or delayed beyond the time aforementioned That then the King of Spain do joyn his Forces with Ours for the Recovery of Our Childrens Honours and Patrimony which upon this Trust hath been thus lost Or if so be his Forces at this present be otherwise so imployed as that they cannot give Us that assistance which We here desire and as We think have deserved yet that at the least He will permit Us a free and friendly passage through his Territories and Dominions for such Forces as We shall send and imploy in Germany for his Service Of all which distinctively if you receive not from the King of Spain within ten daies at the furthest after your Audience a direct Assurance under his Hand and Seal without Delay or putting Us off to further Treaties and Conferences That is to say of such Restitution Cessation of Arms and proceeding to a General Treaty as is before mentioned or else of assistance and joyning his Forces with Ours against the Emperour or at the least permission of passage for Our Forces through his the said King's Dominions that then you take your leave and return to Our Presence without further stay Otherwise to proceed in the Negotiation for the Marriage of Our Son according to the Instructions We have given you This Letter was dated the Third of October And presently after it was sent away the King recollected himself and thought it good Policy to make some advantage of this Breach with Spain if there were One by letting his People see he would no longer wait the Spanish Delayes which they were impatient enough of therefore his Ambassadours to hinder the knowledge of it at home must conceal the Breach abroad stay still in the Spanish Court as if the Business were in full Motion and ripe for projection And he must break it to pieces here himself to make it the more acceptable either to get the more love or
for at my hands Thus the Beams of Majesty had an influence upon every branch and leaf of the Kingdom by reflecting upon the Root their Representative Body every particular expecting what fruit this Sun-shine would produce striving as much to insinuate into him as he did into the general so that there was a Reciprocal Harmony between the King and the People because they courted one another But when the Kings Bounty contracted it self into private Favourites as it did afterwards bestowing the affection he promised the whole people upon one man when the golden showers they gaped for dropt into some few chanels their passions flew higher than their hopes The Kings aims were to unite the two Kingdoms so that the one might corroborate the other to make good that part of his Speech by this intermixtion wherein he divides England and Scotland into halves But the English stumbled at that partition thinking it an unequal division and fearing that the Scots creeping into English Lordships and English Ladies Beds in both which already they began to be active might quickly make their least half the predominant part But he was Proclaimed King of Great Britain England must be no more a Name the Scotish Coyns are made currant and our Ships must have Saint Georges and Saint Andrews Crosses quartered together in their Flags all outward Ensigns of Amity But those English that had suckt in none of the sweets of this pleasant Stream of Bounty repined to see the Scots advanced from blew Bonnets to costly Beavers wearing instead of Wadmeal Velvet and Satin as divers Pasquils written in that Age Satyrically taunted at Which is not set down here to vilifie the Scots being most of them Gentlemen that had deserved well of their Master but to shew how cross to the publick Appetite the Hony-comb is that another man eats But the King like a wise Pilot guided the Helm with so even an hand that these small gusts were not felt It behoved him to play his Master-prize in the Beginning which he did to the life for he had divers opinions humours and affections to grapple with as well as Nations and 't is a very calm Sea when no billow rises The Romanists bogled that he said in his Speech They were unsufferable in the Kingdom as long as they maintained the Pope to be their Spiritual Head and He to have power to dethrone Princes The Separatists as the King called them were offended at that Expression wherein he professed willingly if the Papists would lay down King-killing and some other gross errors he would be content to meet them half way So that every one grounded his hopes or his fears upon the shallows of his own fancy not knowng yet what course the King would steer But these sores being tenderly dealt with did not suddenly fester but were skinned over The King desirous of the Title Pacificus did not only close with his own Subjects but healed up also that old wound that had bled long in the sides of England and Spain both being weary of the pain both willing to be cured The King of Spain sent the Constable of Castile with a mighty Train of smooth-handed Spaniards to close up the wound on this side where the old Enmity being well mortified they were received with singular Respect and Civility The King of England sent his High Admiral the Earl of Notingham with as splendid a Retinue of English to close it on that Who being Personages of Quality accoutred with all Ornaments suitable were the more admired by the Spaniards for beauty and excellency by how much the Iesuits had made impressions in the vulgar opinion That since the English left the Roman Religion they were transformed into strange horrid shapes with Heads and Tails like Beasts and Monsters So easie it is for those Iuglers when they have once bound up the Conscience to tye up the Vnderstanding also EARL OF NOTTINGHAM GEORGE CAREW EARL OF TOTNES And to satisfie the Kings desires about an Vnion betwixt England and Scotland the Parliament made an Act to authorise certain Commissioners viz. Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Dorset Lord Treasurer of England Charles Earl of Notingham Lord High Admiral of England Henry Earl of Southampton William Earl of Pembroke Henry Earl of Northampton Richard Bishop of London Tobie Bishop of Duresme Anthony Bishop of Saint Davids Robert Lord Cecil Principal Secretary Edward Lord Zouch Lord President of Wales William Lord Mounteagle Ralph Lord Eure Edmund Lord Sheffeild Lord President of the Council in the North Lords of the Higher House of Parliament And Thomas Lord Clinton Robert Lord Buckhurst Sir Francis Hastings Knight Sir Iohn Stanhope Knight Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty Sir Iohn Herbert Knight second Secretary to his Majesty Sir George Carew Knight Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen Sir Thomas Strickland Knight Sir Edward Stafford Knight Sir Henry Nevill of Berk-shire Knight Sir Richard Bukley Knight Sir Henry Billingsley Knight Sir Daniel Dun Knight Dean of the Arches Sir Edward Hobby Knight Sir Iohn Savile Knight Sir Robert Wroth Knight Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight Sir Robert Maunsel Knight Sir Thomas Ridgeway Knight Sir Thomas Holcroft Knight Sir Thomas Hesketh Knight Atturney of the Court of Wards Sir Francis Bacon Knight Sir Lawrence Tanfield Knight Serjeant at Law Sir Henry Hubberd Knight Serjeant at Law Sir Iohn Bennet Doctor of the Laws Sir Henry Withrington Sir Ralph Grey and Sir Thomas Lake Knights Robert Askwith Thomas Iames and Henry Chapman Merchants Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons or any eight of the said Lords and twenty of the said Commons Which Commissioners shall have power to assemble meet treat and consult with certain select Commissioners to be nominated and authorised by Authority of the Parliament of Scotland concerning such Matters Causes and things as they in their Wisdoms shall think and deem convenient and necessary for the honour of the King and common good of both Kingdoms Yet the good intentions of this Vnion took no effect as will follow in the sequel of this History But there were a great many good Laws made which are too voluminous for this place having a proper Sphere of their own to move in Thus the King sate triumphing as it were upon a Throne of his Peoples Affections and his beginnings had some settlement for being loth to be troubled he sought Peace every-where But our inbred distempers lay upon the Lee intermixt with other gross dregs that the Princes lenity and the Peoples luxury produced For the King minding his sports many riotous demeanours crept into the Kingdom the Sun-shine of Peace being apt for such a production upon the slime of the late War The Sword and Buckler trade being now out of date one corruption producing another the City of London being always a fit Receptacle for such whose prodigalities and wastes made them Instruments of Debaucheries divers Sects of vitious Persons going under the
Kings shall contend for a blessing upon our endeavours and for your Majesties long and happy Reign over Us And for your Childrens children after you for many and many Generations The King hearing that the House of Commons were hammering upon this Remonstrance went to Newmarket a cold and bleak Air in as cold and bleak a season pretending his Health but indeed to be further from the sound of that noise which perpetually possessed his Ears of the discontent of the Commons for the intended Match with Spain And as the Business grew up he had intimation of it from his creatures in the House for it vext his Popish Secretary Sir George Calvert Weston and others to find the House so bitter against their Profession though they were cunning Underminers and put on a smooth face there yet they aggravated the matter to the King with all the Acrimony they could so far as to reflect upon particular persons that were the most Active instruments in it And what is there in this Remonstrance at such a time when the Protestant Religion was in danger of being extirpated that put on so horrid a Vizard as to affright or exasperate the King The Emperor had prevailed in Germany the Protestant Princes either subdued or acquiesced and laid down their necks to the Yoak The Protestants were persecuted in France besieged and ruined by the youthful fury of Lewis the 13. And notwithstanding Our King's solicitations by Sir Edward Herbert since Baron of Cherbery his Resident Ambassador there who after his conflict with Luynes the youthful Constable of France and Favourite to that King being sent for home the Viscount Doncaster was sent again into France upon one of his mediating imployments who also followed that King from Camp to City and from City to Camp with as little success this being no journey of Bravery for it almost cost him his life there by a tedious sickness Rochel and Montaban were besieged at one time this very year Rochel by the Count of Soissons and the Duke of Guise and Montaban by the King a great distance one from another but Doncaster could prevail for neither yet the French King did not do his work When man hath vented all his malice he can go no further than the line God hath set him One sad story intervenes which had a various Countenance mixt with Bravery and Baseness so that it was doubtful which was most prevalent One Hicks an English-man undertook to carry a Letter from Rochel to Montaban through both Armies to let them know the good State and Condition of the Rochellers were in maugre the fury and violence of their Enemies that those of Montaban might be encouraged to hold out against the King's assaults Hicks makes a clear passage through the Army before Rochell and came to Thoulouse where the Viscount Doncaster was there he consorted with the English insinuating with a young Gentlemen one Fairfax of that noble Family in York-shire who was for that journey one of the Lord Ambassador's Train and Hicks finding him willing being a young and gallant Spirit to see the Kings Leagure at Montaban they rode thither together and under the notion of being of the Ambassador's retinue they had free admittance to view all the Works and Avenues Hicks whose eye was fixt upon his opportunity to fly into the Town made use of Fairfax to take his advantage with the least Suspicion and in the instant of time puts Spurs to his Horse and got into the Town through a Shower of Bullets leaving Fairfax astonish'd at the attempt to be wrackt and tormented to death as he was by the French fury to confess what he never knew so that Hicks his Braveâ—y deserves a Brand of Infamy and Fairfax his Innocency a memorial of pity A noble Spirit must not dare to do a gallant action an unworthy way UIUA EFFIGIES GENEROS I s siMI GULIELMI FAIRFAX PREFECTI To Frankenthal when seige Cordoua loyde Soe â—as our Britishe King craft ouerknau'd By Gondomeâ— as in it Martix made This honorable Cadet 3 and soe stau'd Of all reâ—reuts that Burroughs there comander Our glorious Burrougâ—s was compell'd to render THOVLOVSE But when this Remonstrance was brought to perfection the King had a Copy of it before the House had time to send their Messengers with it in which something so highly displeased him that he instantly dispatched a Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons to forbid the sending of it To Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Sir Thomas Richardson Knight Speaker of the House of Commons Mr. Speaker WE have heard by divers Reports to our great grief that Our distance from the Houses of Parliament caused by Our indisposition of health hath imboldned some fiery and Popular Spirits of some of the House of Commons to argue and debate publickly of Matters far above their reach and capacity tending to Our high dishonour and breach of Prerogative Royal. These are therefore to command you to make known in Our Name unto the House that none therein shall presume henceforth to meddle with any thing concerning Our Government or deep Matters of State and namely not to deal with our dearest Son's Match with the Daughter of Spain nor to touch the Honour of that King or any other our Friends or Confederates And also not to meddle with any mans particulars which have their due motion in our ordinary Courts of Justice And whereas we hear they have sent a Message to Sir Edwin Sandis to know the Reasons of his late restraint you shall in Our Name resolve them that it was not for any misdemeanor of his in Parliament But to put them out of doubt of any question of that Nature that may arise among them hereafter you shall resolve them in Our Name That We think Our self very free and able to punish any man's misdemeanors in Parliament as well during their sitting as after which we mean not to spare hereafter upon any occasion of any man's insolent Behaviour there that shall be ministred unto Us. And if they have already touched any of these points which We have here forbidden in any Petition of theirs which is to be sent unto Us it is our pleasure that you shall tell them that except they reform it before it come to our hands We will not deign the hearing nor answering of it This was the effect of the Letter Dated at Newmarket Decem. 3. 1621. When the House had duly and weightily considered the just Reasons they had to draw up this Remonstrance in discharge of their Consciences and duties to God and the King and found how fruitless their labours were Having as it were cast out one Anchor in a tempestuous season which would take no hold they were forced to cast out another that both together might better fasten on the King 's good affections Therefore they framed this following Petition and sent the Remonstrance with it hoping yet to save the beaten Bark of the