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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57516	The coppy of two letters from Sr. Thomas Rowe Lord Embassador Extraordinary for His Majesty in Germany. One to the Earle of Holland. The other to Mr. Edward Waller, one of the Members of the House of Commons. Concerning the French Embassadors accusation against him in the House of Peeres.	Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1777; ESTC R212830	2,384	9

THE COPPY OF TWO LETTERS FROM Sr. THOMAS ROWE Lord Embassador Extraordinary for His Majesty in Germany One to the Earle of Holland The other to Mr. Edward Waller one of the Members of the House of Commons Concerning the French Embassadors Accusation against him in the House of Peeres Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley August 4. 1642. The Coppy of a Letter from Sir Thomas Rowe Lord Embassador Extraordinary for His Majesty in Germany to the Earle of Holland c. My Lord I Have heard that the French Embassadour hath by your Lordships mediation preferred a Complaint against me in the House of Peeres That I have offered to the King of Hungary in the Name of His Majesty my Master a League Offensive and Defensive against all Men upon condition of restitution and reintegration of the Prince Elector Palatine to his Lands and Dignities which being in contravention of the League between His Majesty the French King and the United States was offensively taken In which he desired reparation I could have wished so much moderation in the French Embassador if the jealousie proceed from himselfe that he had first been well grounded to have proved his Accusation If by Order from the King his Master that he would have been pleased to have asked this Question of His Majesty before he brought it into publique to whom he cannot doubt that I have given account of my Actions But seeing he hath presented me before the Lords I am not sorry nor unwilling to purge my selfe before so Honorable Judges nor that I am fallen into your Lordships Hands who I presume will do me equall Justice which I beseech of you to represent my Answer before their Lordship which is With all Reverence to the thrice Christian King and due respect to his Embassador as his representant and without relation to the command of the one or obedience to the other the whole Accusation in Forme and Matter in Substance and Circumstances is unjust and in the first Inventor false and against Innocency Truth and Faithfull service Scandalous I never received any such Power nor Instruction from his Majesty my Master nor had the boldnesse infidelity or indiscretion to presume to do it of my selfe but so far the contrary that I have often openly authentically and seriously professed against any motion or overture of any confederation directly or consequently against the Crownes of France and Swede and the United Provinces his Majesties Friends and Allies which is Registred in many Publike Acts which I could produce testifie by all the Embassadors Mediators in this Treaty but that I value my owne Witnesse equall and sufficient against my Accuser Your Lordship and many of the honorable Peeres have long known me I am not ignorant either of my Duty or the present conjuncture of Europe and shall end with this Profession that as I am a faithfull Servant to my Master so I am a good and true Englishman neither French Spanish Austrian nor Dutch nor for any respects shall ever be which I wish were the true Character of all my Countrymen of which when I shall have the honor to render an Accompt if I be called unto it to the high Court of Parliament I am confident that I shall not onely justifie all my Actions but make it appear to my owne Advantage That in a businesse of so much perplexity and of so many Relations wherein I have stood alone That I have both understood my imployment and the present condition of Publique Affaires and principally directed all my scope to the honour of his Majesty the safety and advantage of his Kingdomes and the preservation of true Religion in those places where it hath pleased God both to plant and purge it by his Chastisements And thus much out of your innate Cander and ingenuity and for a Testimony of your Lordships Favour to me I beseech you humbly to present in my Name to the house of Peeres That they may be pleased to Register and Publish my Protestation for the Vindication of my honesty and reputation wherein you shall infinitely Oblige Vienna 3. Iune 1642. The Coppy of another Letter from Sir Thomas Rowe to Master Edward Waller one of the Members of the House of Commons concerning the French Embassadors Accusation against him in the House of Peeres Sir I Was confident that the whole course of my Life and the warinesse I have learnt by long experience would have prevented my necessity of making an Apologie especially to the Honourable House of Commons whereof I am an humble Member either of my intentions or Actions But having understood that I have been Accused by the French Embassador To have offered to the King of Hungary in the Name of His Majesty my Master a League Offensive and Defensive against all men upon condition of restitution and reintegration of the Prince Elector Palatine to his Lands and dignities which being in contravention of the League between His Majesty the French King and the United States was offensively taken and therefore reparation required I have thought it my Duty both to His Majesty and for the Justification of my fidelity and the tender care of my reputation wounded in the high Court of Parliament to desire this Office of Friendship from you to represent my Answer First That I never received any such Power nor Instructions from His Majesty my Master nor that any respect could so far decline me from my Duty to undertake of my selfe to transgresse both my Order and against my own judgement Therefore I must protest with all reverence to the thrice Christian King and due respect to his Embassador as his representant and without Relation to the command of the one or obedience of the other the whole Accusation in forme and matter in substance and circumstance is unjust and in the first Inventer false and against Innocency Truth and Faithfull service Scandalons It is very easie to Blot and Stain the purest Innocency but I am confident in the equity and Wisedome of the house of Commons that they will not onely give credit to my assertion but that they will so far regard the reputation of one of their Members as to Blot out and expunge all Record or Memory of this Imputation and that they will please to beleeve that I both understand my Duty and the present State of the troubled World and that all my Negotiations have principally respected the honour and conveniency of my King and Country of which I shall render such an Account as every Accusation shall turn to my advantage I will not reflect upon the scope of this Complaint against me knowing well their Wisedomes will easily penetrate that there may lye hid other designes then to disgrace a private Man but humbly desireing they will be pleased as far and wide to publish my integrity as it hath beene defamed I will no further trouble them nor you but rest Vienna 8. Iune 1642. FINIS