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lord_n	duke_n	great_a	king_n	24,098	5	4.0248	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14428	A manifestation or remonstrance. Of the most honorable the Duke of Buckingham; generall of the armie of the most gracious King of great Britaine containing a declaration of his Maiesties intention for this present arming. Translated out of the originall French copie. Published with authority.	Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.	1627 (1627)	STC 24746; ESTC S119127	5,949	18

A MANIFESTATION OR REMONSTRANCE OF THE MOST HONORABLE the Duke of Buckingham Generall of the Armie of the most Gracious King of great Britaine containing a Declaration of his Maiesties intention for this present Arming Translated out of the Originall French Copie Published with Authority LONDON Printed for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Eagle and Childe in Britaines Bursse 1627. A MANIFESTATION OR REMONSTRANCE OF THE most Honourable Lord Duke of Buckingham Generall of the Armie of the most Gracious King of great Britaine containing a Declaration of his Maiesties intention for this present Arming WHat part the Kings of great Britaine haue alwayes taken in the affaires of the reformed Churches of this Kingdome and with what care and zeale they haue laboured for the good of them is manifest to all and the examples of it are also as ordinarie as the occasions haue beene The now King my most honoured Lord and Master comes nothing short of his Predecessours 〈…〉 of those Churches into 〈…〉 and splendour And what 〈◊〉 bee lesse hoped for by so strickt an alliance and from so many reiterated promises by the mouth of a great Prince but effects truly Royall and sorting to his Greatnesse But so farre failes it therein that his Maiestie in so many promises and so straite obligation of friendship hath found meanes to obtaine liberty and surety for the Churches and to restore peace to France by the reconciliation of those whose breath vtters nothing else but all manner of obedience to their King vnder the liberty of the Edicts That contrariwise they haue preuailed by the interest which he had in those of the Religion to deceiue them and by this meanes not onely to vnty him from them but also to make him if not odious vnto them at the least suspected in peruerting the meanes which he had ordained for good to a quite contrary end Witnesse the English Ships not designed for the extirpation of those of the Religion but to the contrary expresse promise was made that they should not bee vsed against them which notwithstanding were brought before Rochel and were imployed against them in the last Sea fight What then may be expected from so puissant a King as the King my Master so openly eluded but a thorough feeling equall and proportioned to the iniuries receiued but his patience hath gone beyond patience and as long as he had hope that hee could benefit the Churches by any other meanes hee had had no recourse by way of Armes so farre that hauing beene made an instrument and worker of the last peace vpon conditions disaduantagious enough and which would neuer haue been accepted without his Maiesties interuention who interposed his credite and interest to the Churches to receiue them euen with threatnings to the end to shelter the Honour of the most Christian King vnder assurance of his part not onely for the accomplishment but also for the bettering of the said conditions for which hee stands caution to the Churches But what hath been the issue of all this but only an abuse of his goodnesse and that which his Maiestie thought a soueraine remedy for all their sores hath it not brought almost the last blowe to the ruine of the Churches It wanted but a little by the continuing of the Fort before Rochel the demolishing whereof was promised by the violences of the Souldiers and Garisons of the said Fort and Isles as well vpon the Inhabitants of the said Towne as vpon Strangers in lieu whereas they should wholly haue retired haue dayly beene augmented and other Forts built and by the stay of the Commissioners in the said Towne beyond the terme agreed on to the end to make broyles and by the meanes of the deuision which they made to slide among the Inhabitants to open the gates to the neighbouring Troupes and by other withstandings and infractions of Peace little I say failed it that the said Towne and in it all the Churches had not drawne their last breath And in the meane while his Maiestie hath yet continued not opposed so many iniuries so many faith-breakings but by plaints and treatings vntill he had receiued certaine aduice confirmed by intercepted Letters of the great preparation that the most Christian King made to showre vpon Rochel And then what could his Maiestie doe lesse but to vindicate his Honour by a quicke Arming against those who had made him a party in their deceit and to giue testimonie of his integrity zeale which hee hath alwayes had for the re-establishing of the Churches an establishing which shall be deare and precious to him aboue any other thing And that is the sole end of this Arming and not any particular interest whosoeuer would yet call this in doubt let him consider the circumstance of the times and disposition of affaires For who will beleeue that the King my Master hath any Designe vpon France or to haue proiected Conquests here in a time so disaduantagious hauing for an Enemie one of the most puissant Princes of the world and if he had such a Designe that of so many troupes that he hath on foote which he entertaines at the same cost he should doe here and that they were ready to passe the Sea if the Churches haue need of them he should but send a handfull in regard of what shold be behouefull for the executiō of so high an enterprise cōsidering the great succours that he sends into Germany Who will not rather iudge as the truth is that these Troupes here are but auxiliaries and that the intent of these Armes is no other but onely for the good of the Churches which for so many important reasons and considerations he findes himselfe obliged before God men to protect and succour But put the case it be alledged that the King my Master hath bin moued to take Armes for other considerations as the detention and seasure of all the Shipps and Goods of his Subiects at Bourdeaux and other places of this Kingdome to the breaking and manifest contrauention of the Treaties betweene the Crownes which in this point are expresly to the irreperable preiudice yea to the totall ruine of commerce in the rupture of which the poore people of this Realme being not able to vent their Marchandises groanes not onely vnder the burthen of so many taxes and impositions but of the necessities for life it selfe That the apprehension of the King my Master for the powerfull encreasing of the most Christian King by Sea hath forced him to take Armes to hinder the growth of it and in the end that hee hath beene constrained to put himselfe in Armes because he can no more hope of any accommodating of businesse The answere to all that is that whosoeuer will search the Arrests Seasings and Prises which haue been made of the one side and the other he shall finde that the King my Master and his Subiects haue hitherto profited most by this breach and that it