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A71313	Vox cœli, or, Nevves from heaven Of a consultation there held by the high and mighty princes, King Hen.8. King Edw.6. Prince Henry. Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and Queene Anne; wherein Spaines ambition and treacheries to most kingdomes and free estates in Europe, are vnmasked and truly represented, but more particularly towards England, and now more especially vnder the pretended match of Prince Charles, with the Infanta Dona Maria. Whereunto is annexed two letters written by Queene Mary from heauen, the one to Count Gondomar, the ambassadour of Spaine, the other to all the Romane Catholiques of England. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.8; STC 22096A; ESTC S114764	52,214	72

setled peace hee deuoured this rich and noble Kingdome making it not onely tributary but a Prouince to Spaine And was this also Religion or to plant the Catholique faith or rather was it not manifest treacherie and apparant vsurpation such if Don Anthony had not all the world knowes the Dutches of Braganca had more right to this Kingdome then King Philip. P. H. Yea that policy King Phil. learnt of the Emperour Charles 5. his Father who when himselfe and King Francis the first of France contended for the Empire of Germany whiles Francis was bribing of the Electors Charles brought an Armie into the field and so enforced them to elect and choose him Q. M. I must confesse I euer held the Portingalls to be zealous and good Romane Catholiques but as Nauarre lay fit for Biscay and Galicia so Portingall lay exceeding comodious for Andoulosie and if my husband King Philip had not seconded his right of descent by the law of his sword perhaps he might haue had a bad neighbor in Portingall which he and his counsell timely fore-seeing they as wisely preuented And howsoeuer although he hated Don Anthonie yet I know he loued the Dutches of Braganca well but When we speake of Crownes and kingdomes Religion will make his surprise of Portingall a matrer of State though to speake truth State can neuer make it a matter of Religion Q. A. How Well King Phillip loued the Dutches of Braganca I know not but this I am sure of that both Monsieur de Boysise Monsieur de Bissea●…x and Monsieur de Marais Ambassadours with King Iames my Husband for the two last French Kings Henry 4. and Lewes 13. tolde me that Philips hatred and rage was so great against Don Anthony that he begged his body which lyes in a Coffin of Lead in the Cord-liers Church at Paris to be deliuered his Ambassadours and so sent him into Spaine but as they said these two most Christian Kings their Masters answered Philip that there was little Religion lesse charity to take vp and remoue the ashes of a dead Prince and King as was Don Anthony and so his body still remeanes in Paris P. H. If Spaine were so malicious to a dead Prince how ought those that are liuing to beware and take heed of him H. 8. As a guilty conscience can neuer finde ●…est so it may be that King Philip was afraid of a second Don Anthony as of a second Sebastian P. H. But King Philip 3 his sonne hath farre more reason to feare Don Anthony his two Princely sonnes Don Emanuel and Don Christopher and of Don Emanuell his two generous and Illustrious Sonnes Don Maurice and Don Lewes all foure liuing who are fam●…os and Royall reserued Peeres of Shipwracke of that Royall Kingdome and blood of Portingall Q. M. O but they are poore and want friends and meanes to advance their iust title to that Crowne if they haue any E. 6. Their right and title to Portingall is iust and therefore cannot and should not dye Q. E. If the French forces had met mine at the Groyne Peneca or Lisbone or had the Portingals ●…isen my Norris Drake and noble Essex in despight of Philip and his forces had pluck'd the Crowne of Portingall from his head and set it on King Anthonies P. H. No no Don Anthonies Sonnes are beloued of the Nobilitie of England France and the Netherlands and Don Emanuels wife is Sister to that valiant and incomparable Captaine Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orenge So if fortune smile and a fauourable gale blow these disinherited Portingall Princes may one day proue pricks and thornes to the sides of Spaine For all Portingall knowes that their veines and hearts streame with pure Portingall blood yea with the remainder of the royall blood of that Kingdome which Philip 3. his last entertainment together with the Prince his sonne at Lisbone had almost found true but that his Maiestie departed with as much feare secresie and shame as he came with resolution popularitie and glory in the interim these Portingall Princes remaine prodigious and ominious Commets to Spaine Q. M. Did Spaine thinke so it would quickly make these Princes ride Poast into another world Q. E. If Spaine should send these Princes Poast into another world either by the b●…cke doore of poyson by the wicket of a Ponyard and not by the great and fore-dore of Nature it would draw the fists of most Christian Prince about King Philips eares and make all Portingall solemnize their Funerals with their swords drawn and their Cities gates shut E. 6. Indeede I haue heard that the Commons and especially the Nobillitie of Portingall begin extreamly to distaste the imperious pride and ambitious carriage of the Spaniards as many of them let not to say boldly and publiquely that Phillip enioyes the Kingdome by vsurpation and n●…t by right Q. M. Not by right Why Pope Gregory 14. approued his Title and confirmed his Conquest of the Kingdome of Portingall Q. E. So did not our Sauiour Christ whose Successour and Vicar the Pope pretends himselfe to be P. H. In the meane time Spaine domineeres at her Conquest of Portingall and well shee may for it is one of the fairest flowers of his Garland and of the richest Diamonds of his Crowne H. 8 But the other Kings of Christendome haue ●…ust cause and reason to grieue and storme hereat for as it was Portingals mischance then to fall and vaile Bonnet to Spaine so it may be theirs to morrow for to a Prince and people so greedy and ambitions of Empire as is Spaine all fish is good that comes to his hooke or net P. H. Thus Spaine deuoures Kingdomes as the Cyclope Polephemus did passengers for he surprizeth no more then he meetes withall and yet will not Chirstendome beware of Spaine Italy H. 8. VVE haue past from Nauarre the West Indies Portingal now let vs come to Italy to see how Spain is beloued or feared of the Italians how he hath behaued himselfe there E. 6. In Italy the King of Spaine is nayled to the Pope as most of the Colledge of Cardinals and all die Iesuites are to him yea he hath the greatest and richest territories thereof as the Kingdome of Naples the Dutchy of Millane and the Island of Cicily and in a mannet the Marquesse of Monaco and Finall the Dukes of Montoua Parma and Vrbin the Princes of Massa and Piombino with the States of Genoua and Luca doe all march vnder his banner and call onely on his name yea he hath so incircled the Pope as hee is rather his Prisoner then his spirituall Father for if his Patrimony of St. Peter be the Temple his Naples and Millane is the Cloyster to impall it so as he hath no impeachment or obstacle from making himselfe sole Lord of Italy but the great Duke of Tuscany and the prudent and potent Seignorie of Uenice Q. M. O but the Pope neede not feare the King of Spaine for ●…s Spaine is the

Popes hand so the Pope is Spaines tongue For the Catholike King is his Holinesse Champion and his Holinesse the King of Spaines Oracle E. 6. I had thought that the Popes alwayes loued the Kings of France better then those of Spaine Q. E. O no there is reason to the contrary for Spaine hath receiued Romes hellish and bloudy Inquisition and France is so wise and couragious as it reiecteth and disdaines it P. H. Nay there is another reason likewise for although the former Kings of France were braue and victorious yet king Lewes that now is feares the Pope and loues him not whereas King Phillip of Spaine loues him but feares him not Q. M. If the Popes had not loued Spaine they would neuer haue giuen him Naples and Cicily nor permitted him to enioy that rich and populous Dutchy of Millan which is the Patrimony of the house of Orleans and is now fallen to the right of France Q. E. Surely there is a great Vnion betweene the Popes and the Kings of Spaine for Spaine makes the Pope ride on his pontificall Chaire and the Pope makes Spaine flie in Phaetens Chariot about the foure corners of Christendome P. H. But the Pope loued not Spaine so well to giue him either the Marquisat of Anconitana or the Dutchy of Ferrara when he begged it of him by his Ambassadours H. 8. But did Spaine seeke Ferrara and the Marca of Ancona of the Pope Q. M. Yea and vpon good grounds and solid reasons too for that lay commodious for Millane and this for Naples and both would serue as Bridges to passe into that braue and proud State of Venice The State of Uenice Q. E. NOw you speake of the graue and Noble Venetians as they haue long since pull'd off the Maske of Spains itching desire to deflowre their beautifull Adriatike Sea-Nimph so they haue resolued no more to trust Spaniards For of late notwithstanding their prudent decree to the contrary grounded vpon some priuate reasons of State they both thinke in their hearts and know in their soules and consciences that it was onely the ambition and double Pistols of Spaine that laid the foundation of the last treacherous and execrable attempt against their Citie and consequently against their whole State notwithstanding that some perfidious Frenchmen degenerating from the honour of their Country and Ancestors were corrupted and seduced by the gold and flattering promises of Spaine to be the chiefest Agents and forlorne Hope in that damnable attempt and to make this as cleare and apparent as the Sunne That Illustrious and wise Senate well knowes that at that very instant and nick thereof the Duke of Ossuna Vice-roy of Naples houered with his fleet Land-forces to lay hold and embrace that occasion Q. M. Sure Sister you wrong the Duke of Ossuna and in him king Phillip his Master for I haue heard that the said Duke did then Arme vpon newes of a great Fleet of Gallyes comming from Constantinople to Rhodes vpon the irruption of intelligence betwixt the great Turke and the French King for the escape of the Polonian Prince Coriski for the which the Baron of Sancy the French Ambassadour was at least confined if not imprisoned at Constantinople and that therefore for the safety of the Kingdome of Naples it behooued the said Duke to fortifie his Ports of Apulia O●…tranto and Calabria as well with Fleets as Regiments P. H. The King of Spaines Ministers neuer want pretexts and euasions for their designes but if the Duke of Ossuna for affirming hereof should sweare Botto D●…os and par la Sanctissima Uirgina till he were damn'd yet that wise Senate and especially the Councell of Tenn will neuer beleoue him Q. E. O but Ossuna and the King of Spaine his Master shall giue me leaue to ioine in opinion with the prudent Venetians and therefore I highly praise their fore-sight and applaude their generositie in keeping a braue Nauall Army on their Seas and strong Garrisons in their Castles and Cities for the security of their State as also for k●…eping of their Exchequer rich and their Arsenall and Magasins aboundantly stored and furnished H. 8. But hath Spaine offered the Signiory of Venice no other wrongs and affronts but this Q. E. O yes for although that prudent State say little yet they remember and will not forget how busie his Ambassadour and Agents were at Rome to giue fire to the quarrell betweene Pope Paulus Quintus and themselues about banishing the Iesuites from their State and for imprisoning the Chanon of Vincensa as also how readily and earnestly they proffered the Pope that a great Spanish and Neopolitan Army should instantly enter their State and put all to fire and sword P. H. And they likewise remember how the King of Spaine that thereby his Regiments mought fish in troubled waters and get firme footing in their Country hath often incens'd this Emperour Ferdinand then Duke of Gratz to inuade their frontier Townes in Fri●… and the Trevisan Q. E. But Noua Palma Brescia Pescara and Veronae are obstacles and stops to the designes both of the Emperour and King of Spaine yea that wise Sate is so watchfull and vigilent that in time of peace they make their greatest preparation for Warre And it were a blessed happinesse and a safe felicitie for most Kingdomes and Estates of Christendome if herein they would emulate and imitate the example of these wise and valiant Venetians which is neither to trust much lesse to feare Spaine Q. M. But as wise and as strong as the Venetians are as their Church and Pallace of St. Marke was not built in a day so are not all the designes and resolutions of the King of Spaine and therefore a time may come but I say no more Q. A. O I gesse at your minde you would haue the State of Venice made a Prouince to Spaine that thereby he may finde a way for his Fleetes to conuey his Armies into high and lowe Germany And if Spaine thinke so Contareno the Venetian Ambassadour resident with the King my Husband and since him Donato likewise told me that herein Spaine is deceiued in the Arithmetick of his ambition and vsurpation and thus to reckon is to reckon without his Hostesse and without God Swisserland H. 8. BVt how doe the warlike Cantons of Swissers trust the King of Spaine Q. A. As they doe the Emperour Ferdinand his brother Leopaldus and the rest of the Austrian Princes for they knowe his ambition and their malice and so neither feare nor loue these Q. M. But they loue the double Pistols of Spaine doe they not Q. E. Yes but they say the French Crownes of the Sunne are farre purer and truer gold and therefore passe currenter with them E. 6. The Austrian Princes and the Swissers I haue still heard are from Father to Sonne hereditary and irreconcilable Enimies P. H. Yea the Swissers drawe good vse and benifit hereof for by this meanes they liue not in securitie as some other

〈◊〉 the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereunto P. H. 〈◊〉 neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent●…t and peraduenture the kingdome too for already the Commons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France neede not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infections Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it neede not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewis dearely Q. A. Not halfe so well as he loues his Kingdome of France Q. E. In truth France hath reason to haue a vigilant eye ore Spain for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drum Trumpet and Cannon P. H. O no not as yet for if the king of Spaine were so ill aduised his Councell is not for they like old experienced Foxes will neuer permit him to discouer himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and Sword vntill the Sunne hath attain'd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was neuer greatly skild in the Mathematickes and yet consuming my Youth Yeares and Cares for England I haue reason to vnderstand his knowledge Wherefore Sister sith hee is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mistery to reueale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse hee was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall melody E. 6. But his heresie hath brought him hither to heauen tho and hee is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now wee are all resolued to heare you Q. E. I gaue him my Fathers Name and he inheriteth my resolution and courage and the King his Fathers wisedome therefore he can neither flatter nor dissemble Q. A. Speake on Henry P. H. Know all men by these Presents that if Spaine did see the Heart and Bowels of France weltring in its bloud and flaming in the fire of an intestine Giuill warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these rifeling of the Lourre and of Paris and his Maiestie besieging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Samury or denouncing warre to all those of that Religion If it did see sixteene Parisian Tribunes carrying away the Court of Parliament prisoners to the Bastille and Chastellets the rebellious Barycadoes and a bloudie Massacre in Paris and generally in all the Cities of the Kingdome if hee did see some Princes of the bloud or two great Dukes as were Du Mayene and Merary Captiuating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Clergie and Commons and couering their pernitious designes and trecherous attempts vnder the cloake of the holy League If it did see Calais Dourlaus Amiens Montdidier Valencienes Blauet and Croyden or other strong Cities or Forts of France bearing out the red ragged Crosse instead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Louare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that hee would vse him as King Phillip the second had an eager desire and had almost done great Henry his Father Q. M. Why how was that P. H. Right as my Godmother Queene Elizabeth hath formerly told you nothing but to depriue him of his Kingdome E. 6. It were better that all the Iesuites were hanged and the young Queene of France sent home to Spaine with her Portion to the King her Father Q. E. But wee see strange alterations in the Court of France for some dare but will not and others would but dare not informe the King hereof Q. A. France hath reason yea it is high time for her to looke to her selfe for the Agents Iesuits and double Pistols of Spaine are busie and their Swords and Pikes are not Idle For whiles France playes the Theorie Spaine playes the Practique Of the Netherlands H. 8. How doth Spaine and the Netherlands ●…gree E. 6. Spaine hath so long inured and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Marriners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow it is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Phillip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Phillip the third began it or that hee cannot reduce them to obedience by ending these warres with more fortunacie and lesse danger and dammage Q. E. Nay Sister it is pittie that these two Kings of Spaine and the Archduke Albertus and Isabella haue from time to time beene so ambitious inhumane cruell and reuengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of bloud in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyrannie and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this forty yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theater of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue souldiers and renowned Captaines flame then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this bloud is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Prouinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trecherie as Hostilitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orange their Lieutenant Generall and Father to Maurice that valiant and incomparable Captaine who now succeeds him in his Principalitie Q. M. O Sister cast not so base an aspersion on King Phillip my Husband to affirme hee was accessary to the murther of William Prince of Orange much lesse authorised it or commanded it P. H. All the Ocean betweene Holland and Spaine cannot wash off that Murther from your Husband King Phillip for his proscription to murther him beares it and his Lieutenant the Duke of Parma commanded the Count Assonuille to deale with Gerrard about this murther who promised him twentie fiue thousand Crownes to effect it which O griefe to speake it he did E. 6. But his valiant Sonne hath long since had reuenge for the death of his Father Q. A. If he haue not he resolues to haue it H. 8. But hath not Spaine since attempted or broached any other Treason towards the Hollanders P. H. O yes very lately for whilst Spaine is Spaine Holland will neuer forget how neere he was to haue extinguished her libertie and surprized their State by infecting and corrupting their Secretary Barneuelt a man of so profound wit and deepe iudgement and experience in matters of State as he was not onely

strueke such such amazment to the harts and terrour to the courages of Castille and her faint-hearted Castillians that euery Spanish Bird kept his owne Nest not powerfull enough to defend themselues much lesse to offend any and lest of all England who was then ●…n her Triumphes in her lustre in her glory P H. Grieue no more deare Aunt for the Nauy Royall of England for although Nottingam were remisse and carelesse herein yet braue Buckingham hath of late yeares set a new face on that Fleet and makes it not onely his delight but his glory to re-edifie and reforme them yea there is not a yeare passes him but hee brings some new forth from their Dockes and puts in other old although Cranfield resembling himselfe bites his lips at the charge thereof because he affirmes he hath other occasions to disburse and pay away the Kings Treasure Q. E. Nephew Wales I am glad to heare that Buckingham is so carefull of England Fleet-Royall and in very deed his Ambition Care and Zeale herein will infallibly purchase him much loue and honour of the whole Kingdome especially if he continue it H 8. Me thinks Scotland annexed and vnited to England should make it farre the stronger Q. E. But how can King Iames say England and Scotland is strong when he feares the powers of Spaine and will not know or beleeue his owne E. 6. Yea it were much honour to the King and happinesse to his Kingdomes and Subiects if in any poynt knowing the weakenesse thereof he would fortifie and reforme it Q. A. And it were a great happinesse for most Kingdomes and free Estates of Europe if they would follow the examples of the Venetians and Hollenders who will neither trust nor loue much lesse feare Spaine P. H. And among the rest if England would follow it they should drawe securitie out of danger whereas now her apparant danger is drawne and deriued from her apparant security Q. A. O that the King my Husband would thinke hereof P. H. O that the King my Father would make vse hereof Q. E. O that King Iames my Heire and Successour would not hearken or beleeue the contrary hereof H. 8. But this were the way to haue warres with Spaine and King Iames I vnderstand is resolued to liue and dye in peace with them Q. M. Warre cannot be bought at a cheape rate Q. E. But it is pitty that peace should be bought at too deare and dishonourable a rate P. H. I haue alwayes beene enformed that England still gets by her warres with Spaine Q. E. I got by my warres with Spaine and Spaine lost by it P. H. My Father and his Subiects lose by his Peace with Spaine and Spaine gets by it Q. M. When England hath lost her selfe she can lose no more Q. E. But Sister your death was the death of the Popes hopes and of Spaines pretences to England P. H. But they both seeme to reuiue and bud forth a fresh if the Match betweene my noble Brother P. Charles and the Infanta of Spaine take effect Q. A. May Heauen deny the first and the King your Father neuer consent to the second Q. E. So shall Spaine euer feare England but neuer England Spaine Q. M. But I hope the contrary for in these dayes the King of Spaines Gold and his Ambassadour Count Gondomar act wonders in England H. 8. Hath Gondomar propounded this Match to King Iames P. H. O long since and hee hath vowed to weare out his red leather Coach and greene Buckram Litter but he will see an end of it this Parliament Q. A. I thought indeede it was not for nothing that he makes Aesops Fables his daily pocket guest E. 6. How doth King Iames relish this Match Q. M. His Exchequer is poore and King Philips Indies rich and therfore his Maiestie likes it so well as he will hearken to no other H. 8. How doth Prince Charles himselfe like this motion P. H. I know not how my Brother likes it but for my part I should euer haue preferred a Daughter of Franc●… to that of Spaine and I hope the Match will not succeede because my noble Brother Prince Charles is wise valiant and generous E. 6. But how doth the braue and graue Parliament sauour this Spanish Match Q A. Fewe loue it most feare it But as the Match so the Parliament is not yet ended Q. E. This would be musicke indeede for the Romane Catholiques of England if it should take effect for the very first newes thereof made them flap their wings as if they were ready to crowe Q. M. Yea for they hope and which is more they know that if it proue a Match That the Infanta will soone introduce the Masse and Vsher in the Pope therefore they haue reason to reioyce at it P. H. But if the King of Spaine will not giue the summe which my Father King Iames demaunds will not they make it vp Q E. It is probable and credible That their Holy Father the Pope and themselues will stretch both their Purses and Credites to knit the Match H. 8. Why hath Gondomnr such power with King Iames to hope to see this Match effected Q. M. O yes for his Maiestie saith that his Master is an honest King and hee a wise Seruant The first all the world knowes and the second I hope England shall shortly feele at least if all hookes take P. H. Indeed if Gondomar can effect this match it is the direct way for him to be a Grande of Spaine and to procure a red Hat for his Sonne or Nephew Q. A. Was the Duke of Monteleone so rewarded for his French Matches Q. M. Hee is already a Grande of Spaine and hath the promise of a Hat Q. A. Why then Count Gondomar need not feare for hee hath as much policie as the Duke of Monteleone though not so much ost●…ntation H. 8. Who made and concluded the match with King Philip Q. M. My Selfe and the Parliament Q. E. Nay Sister put in Woolsey and Gardyner and leaue out the Parliament for you onely proposed it them but for forme and had secretly concluded it before hand your selfe Q. M. Suppose I did I might doe it of mine owne authority and prerogatiue Royall Q. E. But you offered no faire play to the Parliament though in asking their aduise when the Contracts were ready to be sealed Q. M. But I had reason to follow mine owne Iudgement not their Passions H. 8. Nay nay Daughter you contrariwise followed your owne passion not their Iudgements and so God gaue limits to Philips Ambition and your owne desires by making you ●…orsake Earth and he Eng●…and E. 6. But wise King Iames is opposite to my Sister Mary as well in Religion as sexe and therefore I hope nay I assure my selfe he will first consult this Match with his Parliament ere he conclude it with Spaine P. H. If the voyc●… of the Parliament be free and not enforced I make no doubt but the

that I reade with what vsurpation and trechery Ferdinand King of Arragon depriued Iohn of Albert and Katherine his Queene of their flourishing Kingdome of Nauarre who for meere griefe and sorrow dyed immediatly after hauing no other claime nor title to this Kingdome but an insatiable desire of Empire and Dominion which the Aragonois and Castil●…ans wonne with their Swords Q. M. O but Nauarre lay fit and commodious for the Prouinces of old Castille B●…iscay and Galicia besides the Kings of Spaine are the Catholique Kings and therefore it is both proper and naturall for them to be Vniuersall Q. E. It is indeed both naturall and proper to them to bee ambitious and tyrannicall for I am confident that as Catholique as they are they loue Earths Empire better then Heauens Glory and sure I cannot but lament to see Nauarre made a Prouince to Spaine which more is the griefe of Christendome and the shame of the Royall line of Burbon now the French Kings whose patrimonie and inheri●… it is and will not King Lewes recouer it P. H. Had Great Henry his Father liued he would vndoubtedly haue conquered Nauarre with as much glory as it was lost with shame and pitie yea the Turrets of Pampelone and Fonteraby had long since cast off the ragged Staffe to beare out the three Flower de Luces Q. A. So might King Lewes his Sonne too if the Pope and Iesuites diuerted not his thoughts from that honourable and glorious Enterprise E. 6. Surely it is against the lawes of Conscience and the rules of Religion for the Kings of Spaine thus to vsurpe Nauarre or were they so iust as they pretend they were holy they would restore and not retaine this Kingdome Q. M. O the Cath●…lique Kings are too wise to commit such grosse errours of State as to restore for it is Conquest and Possession and no way restitution which af●…oords them best melody Besides sith they are the Catholique Kings they cannot be irreligious much lesse vncharitable H. 8. Why then Daughter the Kings of Spaine are of Pirrhus and Lysande●…s minde whose limits and confines of their Countries they held so farre as their Swords and Lances could extend them Which being so they are only Catholique in title not in effect much lesse in heart or soule for if Vsurpation bee Religion I know not what is Heresie E. 6. The Pope may but our Sauiour Christ neuer authorized or approued Vsurpation Q. M. But the Kings of Spaine know the Popes will and pleasure as they doe Gods and this beliefe I am sure is both Catholique and Apostolicall Q. E. See see with how much Ignorance and wilfulnesse with what blinde zeale and po●…re implicit faith my Sister is perpetually lincked to Rome and Spaine P. H. If so Vsurpation be Romes Doctrine and Spaines delight and practise my soule did well to make me hate the one and detest the other The West Indies or new Spaine H. 8. BVt leaue wee Nauarre weeping and groaning vnder the burthen of the miserable seruitude to Spaine O how since Columbus de Cortez and Pizarro with as much iudgement as fortunacy discouered to Castille the rich America and in it the Gold and Siluer Mines which hath giuen wings to his Ambition to flie to the height of this earthly Greatnesse wherein wee see Spaine seated and founded How it hath both grieued and amazed me to vnderstand how at Cuba Hayta Peru Panama and Mexico and in all these vast Iles and spacious Continents that the Spaniards with a more then hellish Cruelty haue slaine such infinite Millions and Meryades of those poore Indians whereby in a manner they haue wholly depopulated these populous Countries and not onely made riuers but whole seas of their Bloud and of whose inhumane and bloudy Cruelty I may iustly say that as all former ages cannot shew the like President so our posterity will difficulty beleeue it And yet behold the horrible Hipocrisie of these insulting and vsurping Castillians for demaund them the reason of these their bloudy and execrable Massacres of those poore armelesse and harmlesse Indians and of the rooting out and exterminating of all their Princes and Nobility they with as much falshood as impiety will affirme that sith their King is the Catholique King so this is to plant the Catholique faith in the remote and new found Worlds of the World whereby we may obserue that Religion must still be the pretext and cloke of their bloudy Vsurpation when Heauen and Earth knowes and sees that it is first gold then a greedy desire of Dominion and Empire which is the true cause and sole obiect thereof E. 6. But if that bloudy resolution against these huge numbers of poore Indians tooke place in the heart and councell of Charles 5. must it needes follow that the like inhumanity and cruelty should liue in this of Phil. 2. and Phil. 3. his Sonne and Grand-childe so as this bloud-thirsty malice of spleene and gall against these poore Indians must be heriditary to the Kings of Spaine as now by custome and intrusion and by the ignoble coniuencie of the Princes Electors the ambition to enioy the Empire of Germany is to the house of Austria from whence they are descended Portingall Q. E. MY royall Father obserued well that Religion was onely the pretext but wealth and Empire the sole obiect of Spaines ambition for although Charles the 5. vsurped those places of America from the Indians who indeede knew not Christ yet what Religion or Catholique was that of Philip the 2 his Sonne vnder hand to precipitate and throw Sebastian King of Portingall into the vnnecessary and vnfortunate warres of Affrica against the Moores where hee losed his life with his ambition and then after his decease to worke so on the impotency feare and ignorance of olde King Henry his successour as contrary to the lawes of Iustice and Nature to enforce him to illigitimate Don Anthony the Prior of Crato who was the first and neerest heire vnto that Crowne and Kingdome thereby to exclude him as indeede hee did or if he had not an itching and longing desire to swallow and deuoure that Kingdome of Portingall which all Christendome and Rome her selfe knew was still more Catholique then Spaine yea and then when hee had ingaged his Royall word to the rest of the Pretendants as the aforesaid Don Anthony the Dukes of Sauoy and Parma Katherine of Maedicis Queene mother of France and Katherine Dutchesse of Braganca that hee with them would stand to the sentence of the Chamber of Lisbone to know to whom the right of that Kingdome most properly and lineally descended That then this King Philip the 3. forgat his conscience to God and his promise to these Princes fearing others right and distrusting his owne brought an Army to the gates of Lisbone ere the Pretendants or Portingalls themselues dreampt thereof or had meanes or leasure to defend themselues wherby such was his insatiable ambition vsurpation couetousnes that in a plaine and