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A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

I rend●r you no less kinde Thanks for your aid and Favour towards him than if it had been for my Self Assuring you that this Bond of Alliance shall on my part tye me to give all the Tribute to your good Fortune upon all occasions that my poor Str●ngth can yield I send you so required an Abstract of the Lands of Inheritance And one Lease of great value which my Kinsman bringeth with a Note of the Tenures Valews Contents and State truly and perfectly drawen whereby you may perceive the Land is good Land and well countenanced by scope of Acres ●oods and Royalties Though the Total of the Rents be set down as it now goeth without Improvement In which resp●ct it may somewhat differ from your first Note Out of this what he will assure in Ioincture I leave it to his own kindness For I love not to measure Affection To conclude I doubt not your Daughter mought have married to a better Living but never to a better Life Having chosen a Gentleman bred to all Honesty Vertue and Worth with an Estate convenient And if my Brother or my Self were either Thrivers or Fortunate in the Queens Service I would hope there should be left as great an House of the Cookes in this Gentleman as in your good Friend Mr. Atturney General But sure I am if Scriptures fail not it will have as much of Gods Blessing and Sufficiency is ever the best Feast c. To Sir Robert Cecil at his Being in France It may please your Honourable Lordship I Know you will pardon this my Observance in writing to you empty of matter but out of the fulness of my Love I am sorry that as your time of Absence is prolonged above that was esteemed at your Lordships setting forth So now upon this last Advertisement received from you there groweth an Opinion amongst better than the vulgar that the Difficulties also of your Ne●otiation are encreased But because I know the Gravity of your Nature to be not to hope lightly it maketh me to despair the less For you are Natus ad Ardua And the Indisposition of the Subject may honour the Skill of the Workman Sure I am ●udgement and Diligence shall not want in your Lordships Self But this was not my purpose Being onely to signifie unto your Lordship my continual and incessant love towards you thirsting after your Return for many respects So I commend you ever to the good preservation of the Divine Majesty Grayes Inne At your Honours Commandement ever and particularly To Sir Robert Cecil My singul●r good Lord THe Argument of my Letters to your Lordship rather encreaseth than spendeth It being only the Desire I have to salute you which by your absence is more augmented than abated For me to write your Lordship Occurrences either of Scotish Braggs or Irish Plaints or Spanish Ruffling or Low-Countrey States were besides that it is alienum quiddam from mine own humour To forget to whom I write save that you that know true Advertisements sometimes desire and delight to hear common Reports As we that know but common Reports desire to hear the Truth But to leave such as write to your Fortunes I write to your self in regard of my love to you you being as near to me in Hearts Bloud as in Bloud of Descent This day I had the Contentment to see your Father upon Occasion And methought his Lordships Countenance was not decayed nor his Cough vehement But his Voice was as faint all the while as at first Thus wishing your Lordship a happy and speedy Return I commend you to the Divine Majesty To the Queen It may please your sacred Majesty I Would not fail to give your Majesty my most humble and due Thanks for your Royal choice of such Commissioners in the great Starre-chamber Cause Being persons besides their Honour of such Science and Integrity By whose Report I doubt not but your Majesty will finde that which you have been heretofore enfotmed both by my Lord Keeper and by some much meaner person touching the Nature of that Cause to be true This preparatory Hearing doth already assail me with new and enlarged Offers of Composition which if I had born a minde to have hearkned unto this matter had been quenched long agoe without any benefit to your Majesty But your Majesties Benefit is to me in greater regard than mine own particular Trusting to your Majesties gracious disposition and Royal word that your Majesty will include me in any extraordinary Course of your Soveraign pleasure which your Majesty shall like to take in this Cause The other Man I spoke to your Majesty of may within these two Terms be in the same streights between your Majesties Justice and Mercy that this Man now is if your Majesty be so pleased So most humbly craving pardon for my presuming to seek accesse for these few Lines I recommend your Majesty to the most precious Custody and best preservation of the Divine Majesty Your Majesties most humble and entirely obedient Servant and Subject To the Queen It may please your Majesty IT were great simplicity in me to look for better than that your Majesty should cast away my Letter as you have done Me were it not that it is possible your Majesty will think to find somewhat in it whereupon your displeasure may take hold And so Indignation may obtain that of you which Favour could not Neither mought I in reason presume to offer unto your Majesty dead lines my self being excluded as I am Were it not upon this onely Argument or Subject Namely to clear my self in point of Duty Duty though my State lye buried in the Sands And my Favours be cast upon the Waters And my Honours be committed to the Wind Yet standeth surely built upon the Rock and hath been and ever shall be unforced and unattempted And therefore since the World out of Errour and your Majesty I fear out of Art is pleased to put upon me That I have so much as any Election or Will in this my Absence from Attendance I cannot but leave this Protestation with your Majesty That I am and have been meerly a patient and take my self onely to obey and execute your Majesties will And indeed Madam I had never thought it possible that your Majesty could have so dis-interessed your self of me Nor that you had been so perfect in the Art of forgetting Nor that after a Quintessence of Wormwood your Majesty would have taken so large a Draught of Poppy As to have passed so many Summers without all Feeling of my Sufferings But the onely Comfort I have is this that I know your Majesty taketh Delight and Contentment in executing this Disgrace upon me And since your Majesty can find no other use of me I am glad yet I can serve for that Thus making my most humble petition to your Majesty that in Justice Howsoever you may by strangeness untye or by violence cut Asunder all other Knotts your Majesty would

and Felicity Denied to his Progenitors and Reserved to his Times The Work is not yet conducted to perfection but is in fair Advance And this I will say confidently that if God blesse this Kingdom with Peace and Justice No Usurer is so sure in seven years space to double his Pr●ncipall with Interest And Interest upon Interest As that Kingdom is within the same time to double the stock both of Wealth and People So as that Kingdom which once within these Twenty years Wise men were wont to doubt whether they should wish it to be in a Poole Is like now to become almost a Garden And younger Sister to Great Britain And therefore you must set down with your self to be not only a just Governer and a good Chief Iustice as if it were in England But under the King and the Deputy you are to be a Master Builder and a Master Planter and Reducer of Ireland To which end I will trouble you at this time but with Three Directions The First is that you have speciall care of the Three Plantations That of the North which is in part acted That of Weshford which is now in Distribution And that of Longford and Letrim which is now in survey And take this from me That the Bane of a Plantation is when the Vndertakers or Planters make such hast to a little Mechanicall present profit as disturbeth the whole Frame and noblenesse of the work for Times to come Therefore hold them to their Covenants and the strict Ordinances of Plantation The Second is that you be carefull of the Kings Revenew And by little and little constitute him a good Demeasn if it may be Which hitherto is little or none For the Kings Case is hard when every Mans Land shall be improved in value with increase manifold And the King shall be tied to his Dry Rent My last Direction though first in weight is that you do all good Endeavours to proceed resolutely and constantly and yet with due Temparance and Equality in Matters of Religion least Ireland Civill become more dangerous to us then Ireland Savage So God give you Comfort of your Place After Sir William Iones Speech I had forgotten one Thing which was this You may take exceeding great Comfort that you shall serve with such a Deputy One that I think is a Man ordain'd of God to do great Good to that Kingdome And this I think good to say to you That the true Temper of a Chief Iustice towards a Deputy is Neither servilly to second him nor factiously to oppose him The Lord Keepers Speech in the Exchecquer to Sir John Denham when he was called to be one of the Barons of the Exchecquer SIR Iohn Denham the King of his grace and favour hath made choice of you to be one of the Barons of the Exchecquer To succeed to one of the gravest and most Reverend Iudges of this Kingdome For so I hold Baron Altham was The King takes you not upon Credit but Proof and great Proof of your former Service And that in both those kinds wherein you are now to serve For as you have shewed your self a good Iudge beween party and party so you have shewed your self a good Administer of the Revenue Both when you were Chief Baron And since as Counseller of Estate there in Ireland where the Counsell as you know doth in great part mannage and messuage the Revenew And to both these Parts I will apply some Admonitions But not vulgar or discursive But apt for the Times and in few words For they are best remembred First therefore above all you ought to maintain the Kings Prerogative And to set down with your self that the Kings Prerogative and the Law are not two Things But the Kings Prerogative is Law And the Principall Part of the Law The First-Born or Pars Prima of the Law And therefore in conserving or maintaining that you conserve and maintain the Law There is not in the Body of Man one Law of the Head and another of the Body but all is one Entire Law The next Point that I would now advise you is that you acquaint your self diligently with the Revenew And also with the Ancient Record● and Presidents of this Court. When the famous Case of the Copper Mines was argued in this Court And judged for the King It was not upon the fine Reasons of Witt As that the Kings Prerogative drew to it the chief in quaque specie The Lion is the chief of Beasts The Eagle the chief of Birds The Whale the chief of Fishes And so Copper the chief of Minerals For these are but Dalliances of Law Ornaments But it was the grave Records and Presidents that grounded the Iudgement of that Cause And therefore I would have you both guide and arm your self with them against these Vapours and Fumes of Law which are extracted out of Mens Inventions and Conceits The third Advice I will give you hath a large Extent It is that you do your Endeavour in your place so to mannage the Kings Iustice and Revenue as the King may have most Profit and the Subject least vexation For when there is much vexation to the Subject and little Benefit to the King then the Exchecquer is Sick And when there is Much Benefit to the King with lesse Trouble and vexation to the Subject then the Exchecquer is sound As for Example If there shall be much Racking for the Kings old Debts And the more Fresh and Late Debts shall be either more negligently called upon or over easily discharged or over indulgently stalled Or if the Number of Informations be many and the Kings Part or Fines for Compositions a Trifle Or if there be much ado to get the King new Land upon Concealments and that which he hath already be not well known and surveyed Nor the woods preserved I could put you many other Cases this fals within that which I term the sick Estate of the Exchecquer And this is that which makes every Man ready with their Undertakings and their Projects to disturb the ancient Frame of the Exchecquer Then the which I am perswaded there is not a better This being the Burthen of the Song That much goeth out of the Subjects Purse And little commeth to the Kings Purse Therefore give them not that Advantage so to say Sure I am that besides your own Associates the Barons you serve with two superiour Great Officers that have Honourable and true Ends And desire to serve the King and right the Subject There resteth that I deliver you your Patent His Lordships Speech in the Common Pleas to Justice Hutton when he was called to be one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. Mr. Serjeant Hutton THe Kings most Excellent Majesty being duly enformed of your Learning Integrity Discretion Experience Meanes and Reputation in your Countrey Hath thought fit not to leave you these Talents to be employed upon your self onely But to call you to serve Himself and his

and others It is not the least that divers do adventure to handle the Word of God which are unfit and unworthy And herein I would have no man mistake me as if I did extoll curious and affected Preaching which is as much on the other side to be disliked And breedeth Atheism and Scandall as well as the other For who would not be offended at one that cometh into the Pulpit as if he came upon the Stage to play Parts or Prizes Neither on the other side as if I would discourage any who hath any tollerable Gift But upon this Point I ground three Considerations First whether it were not requisite to renew that good Exercise which was practised in this Church some years And afterwards put down by order indeed from the Church In regard of some Abuse thereof Inconvenient for those Times And yet against the Advice and Opinion of one of the Greatest and Gravest Prelates of this Land And was commonly called Prophecying Which was this That the Ministers within a Precinct did meet upon a week day in some principall Town where there was some ancient Grand Minister that was President And an Auditory admitted of Gentlemen or other Persons of Leysure Then every Minister successively beginning with the youngest did handle one and the same part of Scripture spend●ng severally some Quarter of an Hour or better And in the whole some two Hours And so the Exercise being begun and concluded with Prayer And the President giving a Text for the next meeting the Assembly was dissolved And this was as I take it a Forthnights Exercise which in my Opinion was the best way to frame and train up Preachers to handle the Word of God as it ought to be handled that hath been practised For we see Oratours have their Declamations Lawyers have their Moots Logicians their Sophems And every practise of Science hath an Exercise of Erudition and initiation before Men come to the Life Onely Preaching which is the worthiest And wherein it is most danger to be amisse Wanteth an Introduction and is ventred and rushed upon at the first But unto this Exercise of the Prophecy I would wish these two Additions The one that after this Exercise which is in some sort Publick there were immediately a Private Meeting of the same Ministers Where they might brotherly admonish the one the other And specially the elder sort the younger of any Thing that had passed in the Exercise in Matter or Manner unsound and uncomely And in a word might mutually use such Advise Instruction Comfort or Encouragement as Occasion might minister For publick Reprehension were to be debarred The other Addition that I mean is That the same Exercise were used in the Vniversities for young Divines before they presumed to Preach as well as in the Countrey for Ministers For they have in some Colledges an Exercise called a Common Place Which can in no Degree be so profitable being but the Speech of one Man at one time And if it be feared that it may be Occasion to whet Mens Speeches for Controversies it is easily remedied by some strict Prohibition that Matters of Controversie tending any way to the violating or Disquieting the Peace of the Church be not handled or entred into Which Prohibition in regard there is ever to be a Grave person President or Moderatour cannot be frustrate The second Consideration is whether it were not convenient there should be a more exact Probation and Examination of Ministers Namely that the Bishops do not ordain alone but by Advise And then that Ancient Holy Orders of the Church might be revived By the which the Bishop did ordain Ministers but at foure set times of the year which were called Quatuor Tempora which are now called Ember-weeks It being thought fit to accompany so High an Action with generall Fasting and Prayer and Sermons and all Holy Exercises And the Names likewise of those that were to be Ordained were published some dayes before their Ordination To the end Exceptions might be taken if just Cause were The Third Consideration is that if the Case of the Church of England be that where a Computation is taken of all the Parochian Churches allowing the Vnion of such as were too small and adjacent And again a Computation to be taken of the persons who are worthy to be Pastours And upon the said Account if it fall out that there are many more Churches then Pastours Then of Necessity Recourse must be had to one of these Remedies Either that Pluralities must be allowed specially if you can by permutation make the Benefices more compatible Or that there be Allowed Preachers to have a more generall Charge to supply and serve by turn Parishes unfurnished For that some Churches should be provided of Pastours able to teach and others wholy Destitute seemeth to me to be against the Communion of Saints and Christians And against the Practice of the Primitive Church Touching the Abuse of Excommunication EXcommunication is the greatest Iudgement upon Earth Being that which is ratified in Heaven And being a Precursory or Prelusory Iudgement of the great Iudgement of Christ in the End of the World And therefore for this to be used unreverently and to be made an Ordinary Processe to lackey up and down for Fees how can it be without Derogation to Gods Honour and making the power of the Keyes contemptible I know very well the Defence thereof which hath no great Force That it issueth forth not for the Thing it self but for the Contumacy I do not deny but this Iudgement is as I said before of the Nature of Gods Iudgements of the which it is a Modell For as the Iudgement of God taketh hold upon the least sin of the Impenitent And taketh no hold of the greatest Sin of the Convert or Penitent So Excommunication may in case issue upon the smallest Offence And in Case not issue upon the greatest But is this Contumacy such a Contumacy as Excommunication is now used for For the Contumacy must be such as the Party as far as the Eye and Wisdom of the Church can discern standeth in State of Reprobation and Damnation As one that for that time seemeth given over to Finall Impenitency Upon this Observation I ground two Considerations The one that this Censure be restored to the true Dignity and Vse thereof which is that it proceed not but in Causes of great weight And that it be decreed not by any Deputy or Substitute of the Bishop but by the Bishop in Person And not by him alone but by the Bishop Assisted The other Consideration is That in liew thereof there be given to the Ecclesiasticall Court some ordinary Processe with such Force and Coercion as appertaineth That so the Dignity of so high a Sentence being retained and the Necessity of Mean Processe supplyed the Church may be indeed restored to the Ancient Vigour and Splendour To this purpose joyn'd with some other Holy and Good purposes was there a

Thus having performed that which Duty binds me to I commend you to Gods best preservation Your most devoted and bounden Servant A Letter from the Kings Atturney General to the Master of the Horse upon the sending of his Bill for Viscount August 5. 1616. SIR I send you the Bill ●or his Majesti●s Signature reformed according to his Majesties Amendments both in the two places which I assure you were both altered with great Judgement And in the Third place which his Majesty termed a Question onely But he is an idle Body that thinks his Majesty asks an idle Question And therefore his Majesties Questions are to be answered by Taking away the Cause of the Question and not by Replying For the Name his Majesties Will is a Law in those things And to speak Truth it is a well-sounding and Noble Name both here and abroad And being your proper Name I will take it for a good Sign that you shall give Honour to your Dignity and not your Dignity to you Therefore I have made it Viscount Villiers And for your Baronry I will keep it for an Earldom For though the other had been more orderly yet that is as usual and both alike good in Law For Ropers place I would have it by all means dispatched And therefore I marvail it lingreth It were no good manners to take the Business out of my Lord Treasurers hands And therefore I purpose to write to his Lordship if I hear not from him first by Mr. Deckom But if I hear of any Delay you will give me leave especially since the King named me to deal with Sir Iohn Roper my Self For neither I nor my Lord Treasurer can deserve any great thanks of you in this Business considering the King hath spoken to Sir Iohn Roper and he hath promised And besides the thing it self is so reasonable as it ought to be as soon done as said I am now gotten into the Countrey to my House where I have some little Liberty to think of that I would think of and not of that which other Men Hourly break my Head withall as it was at London Upon this you may conclude that most of my Thoughts are of his Majesty And then you cannot be farr off God ever keep you and prosper you I rest alwayes Your true and most devoted Servant A Letter to Sir George Villiers upon the Sending his Patent of Viscount Villiers to be Signed August 12. 1616. SIR I have sent you now your Patent of Creation of Lord Blechley of Blechly and of Viscount Villiers Blechley is your own And I liked the sound of the Name better than Whaddon But the Name will be hid for you will be called Viscount Villiers I have put them both in a Patent after the manner of the Patent of Arms where Baronries are joyned But the chief Reason was because I would avoid double Prefaces which had not been fit Nevertheless Ceremony of Roabing and otherwise must be double And now because I am in the Country I will send you some of my Country Fruits which with me are good Meditations which when I am in the Citty are choaked with Business After that the King shall have watred your new Dignities with his Bounty of the Lands which he intends you And that some other things concerning your means which are now likewise in Intention shall be setled upon you I doe not see but you may think your private Fortunes established And therefore it is now time that you should refer your Actions chiefly to the Good of your Soveraign and your Country It is the life of an Oxe or a Beast alwaies to eat and never to exercise But Men are born especially Christian Men not to cramm in their Fortunes but to exercise their Vertues And yet the other have been the unworthy and ●ometimes the unlucky humour of great Persons in our Times Neither will your further Fortune be the further off For assure your self that Fortune is of a womans Nature that will sooner follow you by slighting than by too much Wooing And in this Dedication of your Self to the Publick I recommend unto you principally that which I think was never done since I was born And which not done hath bred almost a Wilderness and Solitude in the Kings Service which is that you countenance and encourage and advance able and vertuous Men in all Kindes Degrees and Professions For in the time of some late great Counsellours when they bare the Sway able Men were by design and of purpose suppressed And though now since Choice goeth better both in Church and Commonweal●h yet Money and Turn-Serving and Cunning Canvises and Importunity prevail too much And in places of Moment rather make Able and Honest Men yours than advance those that are otherwise because they are yours As for Cunning and Corrupt Men you must I know sometimes use them but keep them at a distance And let it appear that you make use of them rather than that they lead you Above all depend wholly next to God upon the King And be ruled as hitherto you have been by his Instructions For that 's best for your Self For the Kings Care and Thoughts concerning you are according to the Thoughts of a great King whereas your Thoughts co●cerning your Self are and ought to be according to the Thoughts of a Modest Man But let me not weary you The Summe is that you think Goodness the best part of Greatness And that you remember whence your Rising comes and make return accordingly God ever keep you A Letter to the King touching Sir George Villiers Patent for Baron of Blechley and Viscount Villiers August 12. 1616. It may please your most excellent Majesty I Have sent Sir George Villiers Patent drawn again containing also a Baronry The Name Blechley which is his own And to my Thinking soundeth better than Whaddon I have included both in one Patent to avoid a double Preface and as hath been used in the Patents of Earls of like nature Nevertheless the Ceremony of Roabing and otherwise is to be double as is also used in like case of Earls It resteth that I express unto your Majesty my great Joy in your Honouring and Advancing this Gentleman whom to describe not with Colours but with true Lines I may say this Your Majesty certainly hath found out and chosen a safe Nature a capable Man and honest Will Generous and Noble Affections and a Courage well lodged And one that I know loveth your Majesty unfeignedly And admireth you as much as is in a Man to admire his S●veraign upon Earth Onely your Majesties School wherein he hath already so well profited as in this Entrance upon the Stage being the Time of greatest Danger he hath not committed any manifest Errour will add Perfection to your Majesties comfort and the great Contentment of your People God ever preserve and prosper your Majesty I rest in all Humbleness Your Majesties most bounden and most devoted Subject and Servant A Letter

invite me to it I should have been thought both Incompatible and Backward in her Majesties Service I say not this for that I think the Action such as it were Disadvantage to be thought the Projector of it But I say and say truly that my Lord Admiral devised it presented it to her Majesty and had as well the Approbation of her Majesty and the Assent of such of your Lordships as were acquainted with it as my Promise to goe with him One thing I confess I above all Men am to be charged withall That is That when her Majesties the Cities of London and the States of the Low-Countries charge was past the Men levied and marching to the Rendez-vous I could not see how with her Majesties Honour and Safety the Journey might be broken Wh●rein although I should be carried with passion yet I pray your Lordships consider who almost that had been in my Case named to such an Action voiced throughout Christendom and engaged in it as much as I was worth And being the Instrument of drawing more voluntary Men of their own charge than ever was seen these many years Who I say would not have been so affected But farr be it from me in an Action of this importance to weigh my Self or my particular Fortunes I must beseech your Lordships to remember that I was from time to time warranted by all your opinions delivered both amongst your selves and to her Majesty Which tieth you all to allow the Counsel And that being graunted your Lordships will call that Zeal which maketh a Man constant in a good Counsel that would be Passion in an evil or a doubtfull I confess her Majesty offered us Recompence for all our charges and losses But my Lords I pray your Lordships consider how many Things I should have sold at once for money I will leave mine own reputation as too small a Matter to be mentioned But I should have sold The Honour of her Majesty The safety of the State The Contentment of her Confederates The Fortune and Hope of many my poor Countrey-Men And The Possibility of giving a Blow to that Enemy that ought ever to be hatefull to all true English Hearts I should have sold all this for private profit Therefore though I ask pardon of her Majesty and pray your Lordships to mediate it for me that I was carried by this Zeal so fast that I forgat those Reverend Forms which I should have used yet I had rather have my Heart out of my Body than this Zeal out of my Heart And now as I have laid before your Lordships my past carriage and entring into this Action So I beseech your Lordships give me leave to prepare you to a favourable Construction of that which I shall doe hereafter In which Sute I am resolved neither to plead the Hazarding of Life nor spending of my Substance in a Publick Service To the end that I might find your Lordships who are publick persons more favourable Iudges But will confess that I receive so much Favour and Honour by this Trust and Employment as when I have done all I can I shall still be behind hand This Sute only I make that your Lordships will neither have too great an Expectation of our Actions nor too little Lest all we doe seem either Nothing or to be done by Chance I know we must be tyed to doe no more than shall be for her Majesties Service nor no less In which strait way though it be hard for so weak a Man as my Self to walk upright yet the Example of our raw Souldiers may comfort an unsufficient General ●or they till they grow perfect in all their Orders and Motions are so afraid to be out and with such a continual heedfulness observe both themselves and those that are near them that they doe keep almost as good order at the first as ever after I am sure I am as distrustfull of my Self as they And because I have more Sense of Duty I shall be more Industrious For Sea Service the Judgement of my Honourable Companion shall be my Compass And for Land his Assent and the Advice of those her Majesty hath named as Counsellors at Warr shall be my Warranties It will be Honour to her Majesty and a great Assurance to her State if we either bring home wealth or give the King of Spain a blow by Sea But to have made a continual Diversion and to have left as it were a Thorn sticking in his Foot had been a Work worthy of such a Queen and of such a Preparation For then her Majesty should have heard no more of his Intentions for Ireland and Attempts upon the Coast of France Or his drawing of Ships or Galley's into these Narrow Seas But should at once have delivered all Christendom from his fearfull Usurpation Wherein as She had been great in Fame for such a general preservation So she had been as great in Power in making all the Enemies of Spain in Christendom to depend upon Her She should be Head of the Party She onely might be said to make the Warrs with Spain because she made them to purpose And they all but as her Assistants and Dependants And lastly as the End of the Warrs is Peace So she might have had Peace when she would and with what Conditions she would and have included or left out whom she would For she only by this course should force him to wish for Peace and she had the means in her hands to make the Conditions And as easie it had been to have done this as to have performed lesser Services The Objections against this will be Hazard and Charge Hazard to hold any Thing of his that is so Mighty a King And Charge to send such Supplies from time to time as will be needfull For Hazard It is not the Hazard of the State or the Whole as are the Hazards of a Defensive Warr whensoever we are enforced to fight But it is onely a Hazard of some few and such Commanders as shall be set out for such a Service And those also that shall be so hazarded shall be in lesse danger than if they were put into any Frontire Places of Fraunce or of the Low-Countries For they should not be left in any part of the Main or Continent of Spain or Portugall where the Enemy might bring an Army to attempt them T●ough I doubt not but after he had once tried what it were to besiege two or three thousand English in a place well fortified and where they had a Port open he would grow quickly weary of those Attempts But they should be so lodged as the Seat and Strength of the place should warrant their Safety So that to pull her Majesties Men out of it should be a harder Task than to conquer any Countrey that stands on firm land by him And to let English quietly possesse it should so much prejudice him as he were not able to endure it And for Charge there need