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A10672	Vox cœli, or Newes from heauen 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 trecheries to most kingdoms and free estates of 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. VVherunto 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.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.4; ESTC S122495	52,043	108

Englands Tutulary Angell with a naked brandished sword in his hand all things being hushed vp in silence and all heavenly duties and ceremonies performed these sixe Royall personages begin their Consultation in this manner The Consultation H. 8. BEfore we descend to speak of Spaines ambitiō and Envie towards England or of the Match now in question betwixt England and Spaine with the dāgers which threaten presage vs wil ensue therof it will not be impertinent rather necessary that we mount up the steps of this last century of yeares and so take a cursory though not a curious survey with what Ambition Crueltie and Treachery the Kings of Spaine from time to time haue knocked at most Kingdoms and Estates of Europe in the unfolding and dilating whereof you must not expect much light from me rather I from your selues sith as your yeeres so your raignes succeed me Navarre E. 6. ANd as you all know my yeares were so few and my raigne so short that neither these nor this made me capable to diue into the affaires of Princes and Kingdomes and yet I must confesse it was both with griefe and pitie that I reade with what vsurpation and treachery Ferdinand King of Aragon depriued Iohn of Albret and Katherine his Queene of their flourishing Kingdome of Navarre who for meere griefe and sorrow dyed immediately after having no other claime nor title to this Kingdome but an insatiable desire of Empire and Dominion which the Aragonois and Castilians wonne with the points of their Swords Q. M. O but Navarre lay fit and commodious for the Provinces of old Castille Biscay Galasia besides the Kings of Spaine are the Catholique Kings therfore it is both proper and naturall for them to bee vniuersall Q. E. It is indeed both naturall proper to them to be 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 Navarre made a Prouince to Spain which more is the griefe of Christendome and the shame of the Royall line of Burbon now the French King whose patrimonie and inheritance it is and will not King Lewes recouer it P. H. Had Great Henry his Father lived he would vndoubtedly haue reconquered Navarre with as much glory as it was lost with shame and pitie yea the Turrets of Pampelone and Fonterarby had long since cast off the ragged Staffe to beate out the three Flower de Luces Q. A. So mought King Lewes his Son too if the Pope and Iesuites diverted 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 Navarre or were they so just as they pretend they were holy they would restore and not retayne this Kingdome Q. M. O the Catholique 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 affoords them best melody Besides sith they are the Catholique Kings they cannot be irreligious much lesse vncharitable H. 8. Why then Davghter the Kings of Spaine are of Pirrhus and Lysanders mind whose limits and confines of their Countries they held so farre as their Swords and Lances could extend them Which being so they are onely Catholique in title not in effect much lesse in heart or soule for if Vsurpation be Religion I know not what is Heresie E. 6. The Pope may but our Sauiour Christ never authorised or approved 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 wilfulnesse with what blind zeale and poore implicit faith my Sister is perpetually lincked to Rome and Spaine P. H. If so Vsurpation be Romes Doctrine Spaines Delight and practise my soule did well to make me hate the one and detest the other The West Indyes or New Spaine H. 8. BVt leaue we Nauarre weeping and groaning vnder the burthen of the miserable seruitude to Spaine O how since Columbus de Cortez and Pizarro with as much judgement as fortunacy discovered to Castille the rich America and in it the Gold and Siluer mines which hath giuen winges to his Ambition to flie to the height of this earthly Greatnesse wherein we 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 Crueltie haue slaine such infinite Millions and Meryades of those poore Indians wherby in a manner they haue wholly depopulated these populous Countries and not only made rivers but whole seas of their Bloud and of whose inhumain and bloudie Crueltie I may justly say that as all former ages cannot shew the like President so our posteritie will difficultly belieue it And yet behold the horrible Hipocrisie of these insulting and vsurping Castillians for demaund them the reason of these their bloudie and execrable Massacres of those poore armlesse 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 Catholike King so this is to plant the Catholique faith in the remote and new found Worldes of the World whereby wee may obserue that Religion must still bee the pretext and cloke of their bloody Vsurpation when Heauen 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 bloody resolution against these huge numbers of poore Indians tooke place in the heart and Councell of Charles 5. must it needs follow that the like inhumanity and cruelty should liue in this of Phill. 2. and Phill. 3. his Sonne and Grand-childe so as this blood-thirstie malice of spleene and gall against there poore Indians must bee hereditary to the Kings of Spaine as now by custome and intrusion and by the ignoble connivencie 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 only the pretext but welth and Empire the sole obiect of Spaines ambition for although Charles 5. vsurped those places of America from the Indians who indeed knew not Christ yet what Religion or Catholique was that of Phill. 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 Cra●o who was the first and neerest heire vnto that Crowne and Kingdome thereby

Vox Coeli OR NEWES 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 trecheries to most Kingdoms and free Estates of EVROPE are vnmaskd 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. Printed in Elisium 1624. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS AND GRAVE ASSEMBLY OF THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT The fruition of all Temporall Blessings The felicitie of all Spirituall Blessings Lords Knights Burgesses TO you who are the re-presentiue body of England and the Epitomie and Compendium of this great Volume of our Estate To you who are assummoned by our King and sent vp by our Country to obay the first with your best Fidelities to serue the second with your chiefeft zeale and endevours and to affect and honour both with your most religious prayers and wishes To you from whom God for his glory our Soveraigne for his honor and safety and our Church and Common-weale for their flourishing welfare and prosperity doe expect much by your transcendent and honourable imploiments To you I say and to no other do I present this Consultation termed Vox Coeli to your consideration and dedicate it to your protection And because in point of integritie and dutie I hold my selfe bound to bring the truth neerer to your knowledge or rather home to your vnderstanding May it please you to be informed that about some three yeares since at the first setting of the last high Court of Parliament when our King was so earnest in proposing the match of our Noble Prince his Sonne with the Infanta of Spaine When the King of Spaine coulourably pretended though not really intended to be deepely affected to entertaine and embrace the said motion When Count Gondomar his Ambassador made shew to be a zealous solicitor and a most actiue and officious stickler for compassing and finishing it When our Romish Catholiques became passionately and insultingly confident of the free toleration of their Religion and in the skie-reaching mountaines of their ambitious and superstitious hopes were already preparing to erect their Groves and Altars to set vp their Idols and Images and consequently to introduce their Pope and his Masse in the Temples of our God when all Prisons were vnlocked and open to all pernitious Priests and dangerous Iesuites and that many others like Caterpillers and Vipers came flocking and swarming from diuers parts of Europe to poyson and eate out the soules of our people with their Idolatrous doctrine of Antichrist and to withdraw their hearts and consciences from their Alleagiance and Fidelity to their naturall Prince Countrey purposely with more treachery then Religion to subiect them to a forreine power iurisdiction When the Emperour had beaten the King of Bohemia from Prague and the Duke of Bavaria with the assistance of the Swords Souldiers and Treasure of the King of Spaine had in a setled truce assaulted and taken many Towns in the Palatinate contrary to their promises to our King of his Maiesties to the Prince his Sonne in Law and contrary to the publique peace of Germany and Christendome Then then it was that to pull off the Maske of Spaines ambition and malice who with the fire of this match sought to set England all flaming in a mournefull and miserable combustion thereby to bury her glory in the dust and her safety in the cinders of her subuersion and ruines that as Prometheus fetch'd fire from heauen so the fire of my zeale to the good of my Prince Countrey likewise fetch'd from thence this Royall consultation for the discovery of our apprant and imminent dangers and in knowing them to know likewise how to prevent them Which resolving to make publique because it is solely tended to Englands publique glory and prosperity I contrary to my expectation but not to my feares saw my hopes nipt in their blossomes and my desires stifled in their births because the Seas of our Kings affection to Spaine went so lofty and the windes were so tempestuous that it could not possibly be permitted to passe the Pikes of the Presse When albeit my zeale and fidelity againe and againe infused new audacity and courage to my resolutions to see it salute the light yet it was impossible for me or it to be made so happy because I saw Allureds honest Letter Scots loyall Vox Popoli D. Whiting D. Everad Claytons zealous Sermons and others suppress'd and silenced as also Wards faithfull picture which yet was so innocent as it onely breathed forth his fidelity to England in silent Rethorique and dumbe eloquence Whervpon inforced to take a law from the iniquity of the time with much reluctation and more griefe I hushed vp my said Consultation in silence and because I could not serve my Prince and Country in that booke of mine I therefore then renewed my constant resolution and zeale to serue them in my most fervent prayers and my most religious and zealous wishes the which I haue ever since faithfully and constantly performed Sitting thus to behold the constant inconstancie of the World which presents as many different accidents to our knowledge as obiects to our eye and being iealous vigilant and attentive to that which did or which might any way appertaine to my Soveraigne and his Princely posterity to his Dominions and Subiects I was enforced to see O that I had beene so happy as not to haue seen the perfidious Progresse of Spaines new treacheries and vsurpation vpon many Countries of Europe For first his Cousine Leopaldus hath devoured the Dutchy of Cleaves and Iulliers then he and his forces have taken many other fre Townes and whole Bishopricks in the Counties of Luxembourg and La Marcke as also in the frontiers of Swisserland and Loraine then he and his Factor the Duke of Bavaria for him hath finished his absolute Conquest of the Palatinate that dainty rich and fertile Prouince of Germany the Dowry of our onely Princesse the inheritance of the Prince her Husband and the Patrimony of their Royall issue wherein the honour of our King and of his three famous Kingdomes doe most extreamely suffer I saw him conquer the cheifest Cities Forts and Passages of the Grisons and hath brought their liberties and liues to their last gaspe and periode yea to the mercilesse mercy of his not generous but bloody sword which being vnder the protection of the French King doth likewise cast a wonderfull staine and blemish on the lustre of his honor and Crowne if he speedily take not his revenge thereof by leauing these his honest Confederates as free as he found them and as great Henry his Father left

Instrument and executioner to cut off the two noble heads of Biron in Paris and D' Albigny in Turin Q.M. Why the Catholique King is the vniversall King and therefore it is not strange if in all Countries of the world hee haue his farre fetch'd policies Agents and Instruments to make his stratagems and resolutions take effect for those who are obstacles to his will and pleasure his verball friendship shall alwayes prove their reall overthrow and subversion howsoeuer he and his Ministers pretend and make shew of the contrary Q.A. Nay let vs leaue Biron and D'Albigny in their Graves for mee thinkes it is a poore charity to rake vp the ashes of the dead And for our better information let vs take a survey of the courtesie or rather of the cruelty that Spaine hath offered Savoy E. 6. None knowes nor can deliuer the particular truth thereof so well as your Royall Sonne Prince Henry Q.M. But I feare my Nephew will be too partiall in the delivery hereof betweene the King of Spaine and the Duke of Savoy because I haue heard that of the two Princesses their daughters he preferd that of Savoy before this of Spaine H. 8. No no my Nephew Henry is a iudicious and iust Prince therefore I know hee will not wrong Spaine to doe right to Savoy Q. A He resembles King Iames his Father to well whoe will still loue the King of Spaine although therein he hate him selfe therefore speake on fayre Sonne P. H When Great Henry of France my honoured Vncle made warres vpon the present Duke of Sauoy for the recouery of his Marquisat of Saluses then this Phillip King of Spaine vnder the pretence and shewe to ayd the Duke his brother in Lawe against the French sent him many troopes and Regiments of Spanyards for the preseruation of his State when the peace being made betwixt the King and the Duke and the exchange for Saluses with the Countreyes of Bresse and Gex ratified and acomplished These Spanish Regiments being quartered in Carbonieres Mountemellion Savillan Pignoroll and other places of Sauoy Piedmont they vpon no reqvest or assommons made them by the Duke would depart thence but being commaunded the Contrary by the Count de Fuentes Viceroy of Millan as he was from the King his Master from Spaine they peremptorily resolued and vowed to keepe firme footing which they along time did vntill at last that wise Valiant Duke being thereunto constrained for the securitie of his estate whose emmynent and vtter subuersion he apparantly sawe before his eyes he very nobly cutt all their throates H. 8. Beleeue me his Highnesse of Sauoy did well for it was an act most worthy of his iudgement and generositie Q M. But the King of Spaine the Dukes of Lerma Pastrama Denia Albecurque Tolleao and all the Counsell of warre of Spaine vowe to haue their reuenge of this affront Q. E. Spaine hath done his woorst to Sauoy alreadie for as long as France loues Sauoy Sauoy needs not feare Spaine at least mine Authors tell me soe who are that famous Captaine the Duke of Dedis guieres his valiant son De Crequy noble Du Termes Q. A. Though this one wronge be one too many yet is these all the wronges that this King of Spaine hath offered this Duke of Sauoy P. H. Noe Madame for although the Duke winke and seemes with father Aubigny to haue the art of forgettfullness yet he well remembers how Don Iuan de Taxis Spaines Ambassadour in France told Lullins Arconas and Alimes his Highnesse Ambassadours at Lyons that the Kinge his master would Contribute towards the Exchange of the marquisat of Saluces conditionally it remayned on that side the Alpes from the French and since how his Catholique Maiestie hath performed nothing He remembers Spaines Plott vpon his Castle of Nice the key not only of his Countryes but of Italy when his Spanish Galleyes lay at Villa franca to bereaue him of his Children He remembers how the Spanish Cardynalls oppose his precedency at Rome with the Duke of Florence and how the Catholike King or his Viceroy of Millan for him was the match and Incendiary to set fire twixt the Duke of Mātoua him for the Marquisate of Montferrad Q. E. Wee may see what a kind brother in Lawe the King of Spaine is and what it is to build vpon his affiance afinity promises and asistance P. H. I am glad the Duke of Savoy and the Princes his children haue now purchased the length of Spaines foote E. 6. They haue reason to haue it for they were all enforced to take it with their swordes Pikes and Lances at Cassall● Verceile and other wheres Q. A. As longe as Savoy loues not Spaine The Marquis of Lullius and Monseur De Gabaleon told me it needes not feare it Q. M. O but as long as Spaine Knockes at the gates of Sauoy and Piedmond he may at last enter Q. E. Sauoy hath reason to enter Millan not Spaine Sauoy Q. M. But tyme and the policie and Swords of Spaine cut all donations and rightes in peeces P. H. Savoy hath had warninges enough to beware of Spaine and therefore as I euer loued that generous Duke soe I hope that he and the Illustryous valliant Princes his Sonnes will neuer want armes of steele and heartes of Diamonds to our braue Spaine who with such ambition and malice seekes to out braue it France H. 8. But what sayes France of Spaine Q. M. My honoured father all the world knowes that Spaine hath euer loued France well Q. E. Yea too too well and so well as France will neuer loue Spaine much lesse trust it in requitall Q M. Why hath not Spaine reason to ballance and counterpoise the power and greatnesse of France P. H. Yea but not to seeke to make that famous flourishing Kingdome become a Prouince to Spaine Q. M. Spayne neuer wish't it much lesse attempted it Q. E. Yeares more often then France hath Prouinces or Spayne Cittyes P. H. Why who was the Avthor and Protector of the League but first Spaine then the Pope and next the Devill Q. M. O that was onely to preserue Catholiques and the Catholique Religion and to exterminate and roote out Heretiques and was not this well done of the King of Spaine sith he is the Catholique King E. 6. Nay now the least child in France knowes that Religion was onely the pretext but Empire and Dominion the obiect of that League How else dared Mendoza Spaines Ambassadour in Paris seeke the Crowne of France for the Infanta of Spaine or how els dared the Iesuites his ministers in their seditious Sermons and pernicious Pamphlets aduance her right to the Crowne and Kingdome when God and the world knowes shee had none to it Q. M. Why it was when God had caused that good Fryer Iames Clement to kill that bad King Henry the third at Saint Clou and when indeede that Kingdome was without a head and then the King of Spaine had reason to

needs bee made a Province to Spaine for they both haue consulted and finde that what could not be effected during the Reigne of old Henrie may in these of young King Lewes his Sonne P. H. It is not impossible rather likely for France abounds in a monstrous height of Pride and Sinne And the old Cleargie of France admit of so many new orders of Fryers and Nuns that almost all is out of order and the seuenteene Millions which the Duke of Suilly left by accompt to the Queene Regent is all long since spent and twice seventeene more So as although the Polleta be still on foote Monopolyes never so rife the Finnances or Exchequer drawne dry and exhausted yet the King is extreamely in debt to his Nobilitie and Pensioners and is not this Musicke for the King of Spaine H. 8. Had Great Henry liued he would haue remedied and preuented these calamities Q. A. But his Sonne King Lewes is not so happie to doe it no nor his Creator the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and councell him therevnto P. H. The neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent it and peradventure the Kingdome too for alreadie the Commons grieue hereat and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France need not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infectious Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it need not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewes 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 Spaine for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drumme 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 never permit him to discover himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and sword vntill the Sunne hath attaynd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was never 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 he is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mystery to reveale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse he was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall Melodie E. 6. But his Heresie hath brought him hether to Heaven tho and he is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now we are all resolved 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 Civill-warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these riffeling of the Lovare and of Paris and his Maiestie beseiging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Saumury 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 Merury Captivating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Cleargie and Commons and covering 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 redd ragged Crosse in stead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Lovare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that he 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 God-mother 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 it 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 agree E. 6. Spaine hath so long invred and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Mariners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow t is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Philip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Philip the third beganne it or that he 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 revengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of blood in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyranny and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this fortie yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theatre of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue Souldiers and renowned Captaines slaine then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this blood is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Provinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trechery as Hostillitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orenge 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 Philip my Husband to affirme he was accessary to the

his whole Army in Spaine after that he had inthronised seated the said Peter in his Kingdome and with his Victorious Armes expel'd Henry the Bastard who Vsurped it Q. M. If Spaine had not loued England and Englishmen King Philip would never haue married me Q. E. He loued you well Sister but your Kingdome farre better for you were the Obiect of his zeale but England that of his Ambition H. 8. But Elizabeth he hated you more then ever he loued Mary Q. E. And yet I dare truely affirme that King Philip loued my Kingdome farre more then ever he hated my Person H. 8. To speake truth Daughter he neither loued you nor Mary his wife and Queene but onely England P. H. And I haue heard that if he had neuer married my Aunt Mary she had never lost Calais nor consequently England France E. 6. Though that Match were vnfortunate to England in the losse of Calais yet it was fortunate in that Philip and Mary had no Children Q. M. If we had had any Males England had beene long since a Province to Spaine Q. E. God knew so much and therefore preuented it wherein I blesse his Mercy and Providence as also your sterrilitie P. H. Aunt and I your resolution in speaking it Q. M. The Kings of Spaine are the greatest and most potent Kings of the World Q. E. Yea in Ambition and ostentation but not in power for I proued it not so I found it not so I left it not so P. H. You Madam found Warre with Spaine surer and safer then Peace Q. E. Yea farre more safer and farre more profitable too for England Q. A. Then I wonder that King Iames my Husband so delights and drownes himselfe in his Peace with Spaine Q. M. O but Spaine findes both policie and reason enough to lull King Iames a sleepe in the Cradle of Peace and Securitie Q. E I neuer feared Spaine lesse th●n when I loued it not nor more then when it made greatest shew to loue me P. H. And the King my Father neuer loued it more then now when he feares it E. 6. But is it possible King Iames feares Spaine P. H. It seemes so for els he would neuer loue it so excessiuely Q. E. Sir Nicholas Bacon my Chancellor on his Death-bed wrote mee a Letter that the Glory and Conservation of England consisted in holding Spaine at Rapiers poynt and will not his Sonne Sir Francys the now Chancellor tell his Master so much P. H. O no he is otherwise imployed H. 8. But tell me Daughter was Spaine euer trecherous to your Person Q. E. Almost euery yeare Spaine hatched me a new Treason witnesse Pa●y Babbington Williams Yeorke Lopez and infinite others who sought to lay violent hands on my Person and Life but that God in his infinite mercie and prouidence still protected and defended me to their owne confusion P. H. But King Philip II. chiefely discouered his loue to England in the trecherous attempt of his huge Armado of 88. tearmed by the Pope in a bravery The Invincible Fleete at what time his ambition and greedie desire of Vsurpation so farre oreswayd him and his Councell as he thought to haue made an absolute Conquest of England but he was deceived of his hopes for God looked on England with his indulgent eye of pittie and compassion and on that great and mightie Navall Army with contempt and detestation Q. E. Yea God was so gracious to England and so mercifull to me as not onely my Ships and People but the Windes and Waues fought for my defence and that of my Countrey against the pride and malice of Spaine who grew mad with anger and pale with griefe to see this his great and warrelike Armado beaten foyled and confounded in the midst of their glory and ambition E. 6. But Sister was this all Spaines malice and trechery towardes You and your State Q. E. No no for I had forgotten how before that his Maiestie in Spaine and his Lieutenant the Duke of Alua in Flanders embarg'd and confisk'd a world of Goods and Ships that belonged to my Subiects contrary to all Lawes of Conscience and Nations P. H. And no other Q. E. Yes King Philip beg'd my Kingdome of Ireland of the Pope and so assisted the Rebels and made a confedracy with them for the Conquest thereof from me bringing in first Stukley then Don Iuan of Aquilla into that Kingdome to the same effect But Heaven alwayes laught at their ambition vsurpation and trechery which still prooved as vaine as impious and vniust P. H. And yet see the iustice of the cause and the ●quitie of your Armes for Essex landed at Caliz and in despight of Spaine tooke and rifled it beating and sinking their best and greatest Ships in a maner without any shew of defence or resistāce Q. M. O but now the Times are altered and changed for then Spaine was poore and England rich and now England is poore and Spaine rich Likewise Spaines Warres parsimonie and frugalitie makes his Men Souldiers and our Peace pride and superfluitie hath made our Souldiers either Courtiers or Cowards H. 8. France knew that I found Souldiers in England when I tooke Tourney and Boloigne Q E. And Spaine felt that English were Souldiers when my Drake beate them on my Seas and Coast in 88 my Norris at Croyden in 94 my Essex at Calez in 96. and my Montioy at Kingsale in 1600. Q. M. But then England was delighted in Combats Warres and Victories and now in Stage-Playes Maskes Reuels and Carousing so as their courages are become as rustie as their Swords and Muskets which serue to grace the walles and not the fieldes except in poore Musters and sleyght Traynings and that but once a yeare which vpon the whole is more for ostentation then Seruice Moreouer then Englands Navy-Royall could giue a law to the Ocean and now time and negligence hath almost made all these Ships vnseruiceable who lye rotting at Chatam and Rochester E. 6. Heere Queene Mary hath reason for now shee is in the truth Q. E. What Sister and Brother my Royall Navy lye rotting who are the Bulwarkes and Walles of England and when I left them were capable to beate the power and pride of Spaine to shivers O this grieues me but I beleeue not that my wise and prudent Successour King Iames will suffer or permit it I pray God-sonne and Nephew Prince Henry resolue me hereof P. H. Indeede Madam I confesse I haue seene so much my selfe when God knowes I greeued to see it neyther did I fayle to put the King my Father often in remembrance thereof and his Maiestie still promised mee to new builde and repayre that Royall Fleete to which number I added my Prince-Royall a Ship who had shee many fellowes England needed not feare all the Fleetes of the World but although the old Lord Admirall hath not beene carefull for the preseruation of the Nauy yet the new one is H. 8. If he be not I