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A10670	Votivæ Angliæ: or The desires and vvishes of England Contayned in a patheticall discourse, presented to the King on New-yeares Day last. Wherein are vnfolded and represented, manie strong reasons, and true and solide motives, to perswade his Majestie to drawe his royall sword, for the restoring of the Pallatynat, and Electorat, to his sonne in lawe Prince Fredericke, to his onlie daughter the Ladie Elizabeth, and theyr princelie issue. Against the treacherous vsurpation, and formidable ambition and power of the Emperour, the King of Spayne, and the Duke of Bavaria, whoe unjustlie possesse and detayne the same. Together with some aphorismes returned (with a large interest) to the Pope in answer of his. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.1; ESTC S117031	21,745	45

VOTIVAE ANGLIAE OR THE DESIRES AND VVISHES OF ENGLAND Contayned in a Patheticall Discourse presented to the KING on New-yeares Day last Wherein are vnfolded and represented manie strong Reasons and true and solide Motives to perswade his Majestie to drawe his Royall Sword for the restoring of the Pallatynat and Electorat to his Sonne in Lawe Prince FREDERICKE to his onlie Daughter the Ladie ELIZABETH and theyr Princelie Issue AGAINST THE TREACHEROVS VSVRPATION and formidable Ambition and Power of the Emperour the King of Spayne and the Duke of Bavaria whoe unjustlie Possesse and detayne the same Together with some Aphorismes returned with a Large interest to the Pope in Answer of his Written by S. R. N. I. Printed at Vtrecht MDCXXIIII TO GREAT BRITTAYNES GREAT HOAPE CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES c. SIR THis my ensueing Discourse of Votivae Angliae which in a Manuscript I sent to the King your Father on new-New-yeares day last I now in zeale and humilitie direct and send to your Highnesse in Print I wrote it then to his Maiestie in fauour of the neglected Estate and deiected and deplorable Fortunes of the most Excellent Princesse the Ladie Elizabeth your Sister of the Illustrious Prince Pallatyne her Husband and theyr royall Progenie for the vniust losse and shamefull detention of theyr Pallatynat and Electorat by the Trium-virat of Vsurpers the King of Spayne the Emperour and the Duke of Bavaria I send it now to your Highness that next under God you resembling your selfe will please to lend your best assistance and give your best furtherance to drawe foorth the King your Fathers Sword for the happie restitution and reconquering thereof whervnto the tyes of Religion Empire and Honnor infalliblie oblige hym The eyes of the whole Christian world as soe manie Lynes conducing to theyr Centre are constantlie and curiouslie fixed on the Glorious action to see whether Great Brittayne in this iust and famous quarrell will couragiouslie resolue to redeeme her lost Honnor or else cowardlie consent to lose it without anie further sence or hoape of redemption Your Highness cannot looke on your selfe without seeing your Illustrious Sister nor see her without looking on her Princelie Posteritie sith you have as deepe Interest in theyr Blood as your owne heart hath in you O then how can your Highness whom Grace and Nature your Blood and your Vertues haue made one of the greatest Princes of the world permit to see or liue to permit That these Austrian Princes whose malice is as boundless as theyr Ambition and Treacherie should in a tyme of a firm setled Peace thus perfidiouslie bereaue them of theyr Honnors and thus treacherouslie rob them of theyr Inheritance and Patrimonie yea and reduce them to soe extreame a poynt of Calamitie and Miserie that you are inforced to behold Pittie Griefe Dispayre and Ruyne to act theyr severall partes uppon the Stage and Theatre of theyr afflictions O that this Affront and Indignitie should bee offred them in the Reigne of a King soe Wise and Potent as your Father and tollerated in the life of a Prince soe generous and magnanimous as your Highnesse her Brother yea her onlie Brother as shee is your onlie Sister But the King of Spayne the head and Oracle of the House of Austria hath not onlie wronged the Princess your Sister in Germanie but your Highness likewise in Spayne as if in an inveterat and premeditated quarrell hee made it aswell his delight as glorie to abuse and seeke the disgrace and ruyne of the Blood of Great Brittayne Wherof I hoape your Highness this Illustrious and famous Parliament and the thrice Noble Duke of Buckingham hath now made the King your Father sensibly confident as before hee was confidentlie incredulous therof In a reciprocall requitall and revenge wherof because these manifestlie malicious affronts of Spayne towards our Souveraigne and his Royall posteritie are of too contemptible and pernitious a Nature to bee suffered and of too fatall and dangerous a consequence to bee digested and tollerated all the Subiects of this Kingdome except those fierie Transalpine and factious Transmaryne English whoe have onlie theyr bodyes heere but theyr harts in Rome and Spayne doe vehementlie desire Warre with Spayne as knowing it necessarie for our Estate and safe and honnorable for our King and his Royall Posteritie yea they all vniversallie applaud this highe and prudent Court of Parliament for motioning and seeking that Warre infinitlie honnor your Highness for soliciting and advancing it and exceedinglie blesse the King your Father for approving and consenting thervnto by his Royall Declaration which will make his Name famous and his Fame immortallie glorious to all posteritie Yea it seemes Heaven and Earth concurre with us in this happie resolution to take downe the Ambition and pride and to curbe the power and mallice of Spayne For the distaste of the French the Defiance of the Hollanders the Iealousie of Savoy and Venice and the zeale and resolution of England now demonstrated in her Representive bodie the Parliament whoe cheerfullie proffer theyr whole Estates and Lives to soe Iust soe necessarie and soe Honnorable a Warre the Honnor and safetie of our owne Estate the Glorie of GOD and the defence and protection of his afflicted Spouse the Church doth agayne and agayne invyte your Highness Sword and c●niure his Maiesties last and speedie resolution to beginne this Warre For it is not enough for the King your Father your Highness and the Parliament to give a forme to your Militarie Consultations except yee cast off all delayes remove all letts obstacles and procrastinations which may retard or oppose it give a life to that forme and a resolution to that life by drawing your Contemplation into Action that our Ships and selues may bee in a readiness to prevent Spayne ere Spayn bee readie to prevent us and of power to strike him ere hee can possiblie bee sufficientlie powerfull to threaten us and that our Regiments and Squadrons bee inrolled and in sight of theyr Coullers and ready to March at the verie first calle of the Drumme sith England and Scotland never sawe feare but in the fronts and faces of our Enemyes and alwayes went to the Warres as to a Ioyfull Wedding or to an assured Victorie and Triumph Great Prince you saw and understood what a world of ioyfull Bonfires or fires of Ioye wee made when your Highnesse returned from Spayne with as much safetie as you went foorth with danger yea our zeale and affection is soe ardent to your Highness because your Obedyence is such to the King your Father that wee shall iustlie hold our selues wronged of the Parliament if they for themselues the whole Kingdom be not Peticioners to the King your Father that hee will please to ordayne that wee may Religiouslie keepe and obserue two newe Holidayes and Festivals and that they may bee henceforth marked with Rubrickes in our Almanacks to the end that not onlie our selues but our Posteritie may yearelie celebrate

and obserue them with a world of Bonfires of Ioy and ioyfull shouts and acclamations of reioycing viz. The 5th of October the day of your Highness arrivall from Spayne and the 24th of March following the day that your Match with Spayne was broken off and Warres declared for the restoring of the Count Pallatyne and his Heyres to theyr Pallatynat and Electorat That as wee therin doe nowe participate of the causes of our Ioy soe they hereafter may enioye them by feeling and enioying the effects therof For for the honnor safetie of our King and of all his Royall Posteritie and for the flourishing prosperitie welfare of the Church and Estate of the Israell of our Great Brittayne hee is not a true Subiect a faythfull and loyall-harted Britton noe nor the sonne of an honnest man that is not ready and willing to beare his life on the poynt of his Sword and if occasion present to lose it rather then to retayne and preserue it in soe Iust and Honnorable a quarrell And your Highness for seconding and fortifying of this your Royall Fathers Warlike resolutions agaynst his Maiesties your owne and your Illustrious Sisters Enemyes in the Two mayne poynts of our Welfare and Honnor Englands preservation and the Pallatynats restitution will accumilate and heape upp a whole world of Blessings and benedictions on your Princelie head from your Fathers good Subiects whoe with one Tongue one heart one affection and one soule will with as much Ioy as zeale and as much zeale as Dutie Pray unto God for the long prosperous and victorious Life of the King your Father my Gracious Souveraigne of your Royall selfe of our Gracious Princess your Sister of the Illustrious Prince her Husband and theyr Royall posteritie The which none shall performe with more true Zeale and unfeigned Devotion then Your Highness his most humblie Devoted Seruant S. R. N. I. The Printer to the Reader GEntelmen the Author his remote absence from the Presse hath occasioned mee to commit manie Errours wherof hee is innocent his deserts crave and deserve you to reforme them and I likewise desire it aswell for your satisfaction as for myne owne excuse Farewell My Most Sacred Soueraigne I Should not bee that which God hath made me to be your Majesties most obedyent and most faythfull Subject if I were not a thousand times more jealous and zealous for the preservation of your Maiesties and your royall Childrens welfare and honnor then of myne owne life But sith Grace hath made me soe fortunat and Nature soe happie as alsoe composed me of a temper that I had rather die for speaking the truth then liue eyther to Conceale or Desemble it to your Maiestie Therfore in the behalfe of the forsaken Prince Palatyne your Sonne in Lawe of his sorowfull Princesse your onlie Daughter and their mournfull posteritie for the losse of their neglected Patrimonie the Pallatinat wherin my Conscience guyded by the truthe informes my soule that your Maiesties honnor extreamlie suffers Giue mee leaue O giue me leaue my Most Gratious King in all humilitie and Dutie to send these ensewing motiues and reasons to your Maiesties serious pervsal consideratiō therby to incyte and stirre up your Royall resolutions for the refetching and reconquering therof wheron at present the eyes of the whole Christian worlde are constantlie fixed And thou great God of Heaven whoe at thie pleasure and in thie providence swayest the harts and hands the affections and actions of all the Kinges of the Earth thie Vicegerents So blesse my Soveraign and all his sences in the reading therof that his Majesties Iudgement prevayle ore his passion his Courage out-braue his feare that naked Truth may take place of disguised Imposture and royall Iustice triumph ore hoodwincked and treacherous Vsurpation Although it be true that the Prince Palatyne your Son in Law committed a first errour of Estate in assuming and taking on him the Crowne of Bohemia will your Majestie therfore commit a second in permitting him to lose his Pallatinat or because hee wanted no Ambition but Iudgment to attempt that must your Ma tie therfore want affection zeale and equitie to him to the Princess your Daughter and their royall Issue to tollerate suffer this You likewise sawe and suffered the Emperour to chastice him from Bohemia and therin you shewed an act of Iustice which celebrates your fame to all Europe but if your Majestie permit him for euer to ruyne him and absolutelie to Depriue him of his and his Childrens Patrimonie that wil be a Dishonorable testimonie of too great disrepect and want of affection in your Majestie as being their Father and of too much feare pusilanimitie as beeing a Great and Potent King and this will not onlie blemish but eclipse it to all the world Doe I speake of Dishonnor O then I beseech your Majestie to consider how long Honor is purchasing how soone lost and that having sacrificed all the actions of our life to preserue it wee neede but one Errour to ruyne it and as the meanest Gentelman is bound to this rule soe the greatest Princes and Monarckes of the world haue consequentlie the greatest shares and interrests in the prevention therof For the true Matchiavillians and Emperickes of Estate who tearme honnor but smoke are deceived and ignorant of Honnor Sith to defyne it aright it is the purest golde of a Kinges crowne and the richest Diamond to embelish and adorne it yea it is a great part of that which makes a King a King because it giues him just reason to Commaund his subjects they as just cause to obey him and which is more the retaining therof pure and the preserving therof immaculate makes him to bee both feared and beloved of all his neighbour Princes whoe otherwise will haue just cause to neglect Contemne him because he first contemned and neglected it Soe were your Ma tie onlie a spectator and not an Actor or had you noe Interest in the Pallatynat you should then receiue noe Dishonnor not to attempt or seeke the restitution therof But sith for the good of your Disinherited Children you haue as deepe Interest in that famous Province as you haue in the Royall blood which streames in their hartes and veynes will it not be an honnor for your Majestie to restore it to them sith it was lost with shame and a shame if you restore not them to it with honnor And in regard the Emperour and Duke of Bavaria haue conquered it from them by Vsurpation will it not bee an action as full of Compassion as glorie for the King of Great Brittayne to reconquer it from them with Iustice. And although peradventure the current of other mens affections and passions transport your Majestie from the true way of truth in beleeuing that the Dishonnor of this losse falls onlie on the Count Pallatyne no way reflects on your Royall and Sacred person yet the best of your subjects beleeue though the woorst are

your Courage but animate your Designes and your Subiects will execute them For give them but the worde of Commaund to resetch it by Warre and your Majestie will then see they will act wonders with theyr Swordes not onlie answerable to your desires and expectation but beyond the Emperours the King of Spaynes and the Duke of Bavaria's beleife and your Nobilitie and Gentrie out of theyr true zeale and innate affection to the famous Princesse your Daughter her Husband and Posteritie will flye from Thames to Rhyne as to a Fayre or Wedding and you shall have more Gentelmen in this action then ever Germane Armie beheld or Spanish confronted And although money which is the true cyment and synewes of Warre seeme now scarce in your Kingdomes and that your Bounties hath made your Exchequer and Treasor emptie yet if your Majestie will be pleased to secure but this one doubt and feare of your Subjects that your Souldiers may eate and not your Courtiers devoure the monyes which a Parliament will give and rayse you for this enterprise you shall then assuredlie finde an Indyes in your England and more huge sommes of mony cheerfully Contributed then that action can anie way take upp or expend you shall finde that one Herauld will doe more good then all your Ambassadors have performed And as the Mathematicians hold that the rightest and straightest Lyne is still the shortest Soe your Majestie shall undoubtedlie finde that the rightest and shortest way for you to recover the Pallatynat will bee by your Sword When Scotland was not yet added by your Majestie to England England holding herselfe bound in poynt of Honnor hath sent a blacke Prince into Spayne a Drake and Essex into Portugal and an Essex Willoughbie Norrice and Fourbisher into France with statelie Fleets and Regiments to restore Disinherited Kinges to theyr Kingdomes whoe were yet but our Confederates and will not your Majestie whoe hath so happilie Vnited and Wedded Scotland to England and whoe is the powerfullest Monarch that ever swayed the Brittish Sceptre attempt and performe the like for the Prince Pallatyne your Son in Lawe and the Husband of your onlie Daughter our Princesse our hands harts and swordes beeing of as good and of as excellent a temper as ever our Predecessors were having as it were hands of Steele and hartes of Diamonds for the attempting and finishing of this Honnorable Enterprise If the King of Spayne will not abandon his Cousen the Emperour should your Majestie abandon or rather should you not assist and protect the Count Pallatyne your Son in Lawe agaynst the Emperour Or if there ensue hereon anie breach betwixt your Majestie the King of Spayn hath he not given you just cause to undertake that warre which is soe Iust Honnorable and Charitable as to the eyes and censures of the whole world it beares its perswasion with it And if your actions and resolutions be such that you resolve rather to give Spayne cause to feare you then to take anie to make your Majestie feare Spayne your Maiestie shall then infalliblie fetch securitie out of danger and drawe honnor out of shame yea if you wil couragiouslie resolve to cut this Gordion knot with Alexander and to passe this Rubicon with Caesar you shall then trulie and tryumphantlie participate of the ones Fame and of the others Glorie and this indeed will make your Maiestie live after Death and reviue agayn in your fame as the Phaenix doth out of her ashes And noe sooner shall your Drummes beate and your Coullers bee displayed uppon the banckes of Rhyne but your Majesties sword shall put a newe face uppon Germanie and make England consequentlie assume her olde one which was ever woont to looke more Martiall and lesse Effemynate lesse contemptible to our Friends and still more terrible to our Enemyes It is an action and resolution full of Religion full of Equitie and full of Glorie whervnto the honnor of your Kingdoms and your Royall person and your Maiesties naturall affection towards your Princelie Children doth both envite and conjure you to attempt and perfect it It is a worke and labour infinitlie worthie of your Sword your Sceptre your Crowne yea it will bee one of the most precious Iewels and Diamonds which your lyfe can possiblie give to the adorning of your Raigne or your Death to the embellishing of your Tombe or Chronicle Is the recoverie of the Pallatynat a great action Consider I beseech you that you are a Great King a Potent Monarche doth it produce difficulties what important enterprise ever was or can there bee without them or what cannot the hartes and swordes of Great Brittayne make easie and as success comes some tymes short of our hoapes soe manie tymes it goes beyond them doth it threaten Danger whie there is the more Glorie to surmount it and beeing well and firmlie begunne it will bee alreadie halfe ended Sith there is nothing more Couragious then a good Cause nor more Victorious then the Truthe And although your Majestie delight and glorie to bee tearmed A Prince of Peace yet lett your Peace live and flourish in Honnor and not wyther and dye in Contempt and shame For God whoe is the Protector of Princes will rather releeve then ruyne them and rather desire and authorise theyr restoration to then theyr deprivation from theyr Countryes and it will bee farre easier to beleeve then to represent the joy which all the best and truest harted of your Subjects will conceyue when they shall see your Majesties sword as deeplie ingaged in the quarrell of the Pallatynat as your Sceptre and Honnor is in the cause therof Our famous Elizabeth did beate Spayne and shall our Royall and Potent King IAMES feare it Besides we see our trustie Neighbors and Friends the Hollanders relye uppon the poyntes of theyr Swordes for the preservation of theyr Estates and Lyues and therin they infalliblie finde the securitie of the one and the safetie of the other by Detecting and Detesting the Treacheries of Spayne which is still more prevalent and powerfull in theyr calmes of Peace then in theyr tempests of Warre and it will bee noe small felicitie to your Majestie to see these valiant and constant Confederates how couragiouslie they will second your Warlike attempts in this restoration and how constantlie and resolutelie they will marrie theyr Forces to yours and with theyr best powers pushe foorth the Chariot of your triumphs agaynst the House of Austria Proceed Great King with this action soe full of Glorie and Honnor and the God of Heaven and Earth make your Majestie still happie in your Peace and victorious in your Warres And because it is a difficult poynt to satisfie our selves and the tyme together yet notwithstanding I hope that your Majestie will pardon this boldness and affection of myne except it bee held a Crime to honnor my Kinges Daughter and to desire the prosperitie and welfare of the Prince her Husband and theyr Royall posteritie which next unto that of your owne sacred Majestie and then of the Illustrious Prince Charles your Sonne I will neyther cease to doe with my best zeale nor fayle to performe with my most religious wishes and prayers From my Chamber in your Citie of London this New-yeares Eue and I beseech the Lord to give your Maiestie manie happie and ioyfull newe Yeares and Dayes Anno Dom. 1624. Your Ma ties most humble and most faythfull Subject till Death S. R. N. I. FINIS