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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73131	Certaine reasons and arguments of policie, why the King of England should hereafter giue over all further treatie, and enter into warre with the Spaniard	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22073.6; ESTC S123281	5,414	16

CERTAINE REASONS AND ARGVMENTS OF POLICIE Why the King of ENGLAND should hereafter giue over all further Treatie and enter into warre with the Spaniard Printed M.DC.XXIV CERTAINE REASONS AND ARGVMENTS OF POLICIE WHY THE KING OF England should hereafter giue over all further Treatie and enter into warre with the Spaniard For the first which is Leaving off all treaty BEcause the English in all Treaties taken in hand with the Spaniard and the house of Austria and continued so many yeares with such labour and charges hath not only bin vnfortunate but also scornefully abused by the Spaniard who is exceedingly disagreeing from the honest mind and meaning of the English For so many yeares while things stood stronger on the side of the English nothing hath been effected by treatie and who can presume that any thing will be effected now when things are brought into far worse case The King by seuen divers Treaties and Ambassages hath effected iust nothing in this cause which concernes the peace of Germany and the whole estate of his Sonne in law 1. In the yeare 1619. by the Earle of Carleil 2. by Sir H Wotton at Vienna 1620. 3. by Conway and Weston in the same yeare 4. by the Lord Digby 1621. 5. by Weston in the same 6. by the Lord Chichester Baron of Belfast 7. by the Prince in Spaine 1623. Besides how many Curriers haue been sent how many letters written and what adoe hath beene made by ordinary Ambassadours and Ministers 2. The honor of the King and kingdome requires that this tie of Treaties which they haue been entangled in all this while should now be broken off For if they should continue that course which hath brought no benefit to either themselues or to others or to the common cause who can excuse them Besides they should expose themselues to cōtempt and scorne by stumbling so often vnpardonably at the same stone with their friends and subiects they should bring themselues into suspition and hate by continuing a thing so dangerous to strangers they shold not onely increase the ill opinion which the world hath conceived of their secure cariage but also they should giue all men good cause to forsake them herafter if they should chance to haue need of them 3. By Treaties the English haue not onely got and gained nothing but farther all the businesses of themselues and their friends haue euer gone backward to the worse the Spaniards going forward alwayes with a high looke and a brazen face and wisely making vse of the faire forewind of fortune turning their countenance to the English and their mind to their owne aduantage 4. The meaning and scope of the Spaniard is directly opposite to that of the English For his endevour is by Treaties to circumvent to gaine time to vndoe his enemies by delayes to aduance his owne profit and Dominion to despise Peace as pernicious to him and his great power to nourish Warre especially in Germanie where by the dissention of the Princes diversitie of Religion and assistance of his friends he may be sure not onely to lose nothing but to gaine and to fish safely in troubled Waters But the intention of the English is honest viz. to giue peace to Europe and to euery one his owne neither doth he intend to get benefit to himselfe rule over others And how can these contradictories be reconciled by Treaties 5. The very adverse part doth ill interpret and take these treaties of the King as if thereby he intended nothing els but to gaine time and to waite for the revolution of fortune or the occasion of change with a mind altogether estranged from any peaceable composition and onely pretending an intention of treating as the Archbishop of Mentz doth in expresse words write of the King to the Elector of Saxon. 7. Octob. 1623. The Letters may be seene Reasons for the second Of vndertaking Warre with Spaine The faith promised mutually to one another which they haue violated the breaking of the Couenants confirmed by solemne stipulation the iniuries offered the deeds and instruments of the Couenants falsified and such like as these which follow all or any one of these are esteemed of all Nations iust cause of entring into warre Now then must we declare how faith hath beene violated and the solemne conditions of the League haue been broken by them The last yeare a surcease of Armes for 15. moneths was propounded of the Spaniard accepted of the English and vpon certaine Articles vpon both parts agreed vpon was set downe in instruments signed and sealed But the Spaniard and their Complices both at the very time in which they sealed the Articles and also afterward did many waies violate and pervert them both by leauing out what was agreed vpon and inserting what was not couenanted at all That Instrument of truce was exhibited and communicated in the Empire in the month of March many weeks before it was either concluded or signed in England In the meeting at Iutterbock to the end that the Warlike Preparations of the Princes of Germanie might be hindered and in Hungary to Gabor that he should not stirre it was exhibited longs before it was concluded as if it had been fully concluded and sealed And marke their cunning and false practise by this exhibition of it and a false perswasion which they added to it that all things should shortly be accommodated were the Princes of the Empire so moued and perswaded that they compelled the Duke of Brunswick to lay downe Armes and to depart out of the bounds of Germanie denying him all prouision and passage But the Instruments of the Truce were not subscribed by the English but in the 21. of Aprill olde stile or the first of May new stile and after in the moneth of August ratified by the Elector Palatine Moreouer in those Instruments and Deeds giuen abroad there to Germanie by the other partie these words in the third Article Declaring them enemies of the Empire and of our Allies were left out as words that might giue iust cause of offence to the Princes of the Empire when they should see such a hard declaration extorted and wrung out of the English But in the instruments signed in England those words were expresly set downe notwithstanding the exception made against them by the Kings Sonne in law 2. In the last Article in their deeds it was left out That the King of England should send his Deputies for the Interest of his Son in law when yet in that consisted the very hinge and controuersie of the businesse and the foundation of the mind and will of the King of England as it is expressed in the English instruments There is also a falshood to be noted in the subscription of the day In the English is expressed the 21 of April English stile in theirs the first of May. Moe things may be brought to shew that there was either falshood or else double deeds Furthermore it was also expresly prouided