Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

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majesty_n	excellent_a	london_n	printer_n	2,515	5	10.0574	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52836	The letter sent by the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys to His Majesty, by their Trumpeter together with His Majesties answer to the said letter / translated out of French into English.; Lettre des Estats Generaux des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas envoyee a sa majeste le Roy de La Grande Bretagne par un trompette. English	United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; Fagel, Gaspar, 1634-1688.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). His Majesties answer to the letter sent from the States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countreys by their trumpeter.	1673 (1673)	Wing N485; ESTC R3548	9,351	26

THE LETTER Sent by the States-General of the United Provinces Of the Low Countreys TO HIS MAJESTY By their Trumpeter Together with His Majesties Answer To the said Letter Translated out of French into English Published by His Majesties special Command DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1673. A LETTER Sent by the STATES-GENERAL OF THE VNITED PROVINCES TO THE KING of GREAT BRITAIN SIRE AS we have never desired any thing more then to merit the good Will of Your Majesty and to cultivate a Friendship which had been heretofore Hereditary between Your Majesties Kingdom and this Republick so we were beyond measure troubled when we saw Your Majesty exasperated against us and that by the Artifices of evil minded persons Your Subjects and Ours have been overwhelmed with those miseries which are inseparable from War and brought to shed that bloud which hath been alwayes dear to either side The sad experience we had thereof on both parts in the preceding War had given us cause to believe at the same time that after we were re-united the Peace would be a blessing which was no more to be ravished from us And we were the rather perswaded of it because the New Alliances we were entred into seemed able to make our Union eternal But seeing Divine Providence for the chastisement of the two Nations hath permitted that things should not continue long in that happy estate we no sooner perceived a Misunderstanding arise but we thought our selves obliged to use all imaginable endeavours to stop the progress of it and to omit nothing that might contribute to the preventing so great an evil as that of a Rupture In order to which being certainly informed that Your Majesty was offended at a Medall which we had not suffered to be sold but that we thought it very innocent we immediately suppressed it and caused the very Stamps to be broken for fear there might be some made secretly And to give Your Majesty more essential proofs of the esteem we had of Your Friendship we yielded to Your Majesty whatever You were pleased to demand of us in behalf of the inhabitants of Surinam how prejudicial soever the thing were to us and whatsoever reason we otherwise had not to consent to it At the same time we sent the Sieur Van Beuningen to Your Majesty for removing if it were possible the sinister impressions which some laboured to possess Your Majesty with and for perfecting a Regulation proposed by Your Majesties Ambassador between Your East-India Company and Ours Since that although the little success which the said Sieur Van Beuningens Negotiation had had gave us but too great cause to fear that we should not succeed better for the future yet we no sooner understood that there were some who would perswade Your Majesty as well against all likelihood of truth as truth it self That we treated underhand with France to the prejudice of Your Majesties interests but we gave order without delay to our Ambassador with Your Majesty to declare to Your Majesty in our name That to shew the falshood of those reports which were spread abroad to our disadvantage and to give Your Majesty essential and unquestionable marks of the sincerity of our intentions we were ready to enter into such an Alliance with You as You should think fit how strict soever it should be and to go far beyond any thing we had hitherto done for securing the Peace of Europe Then followed the affair of the Flagg wherein we think our conduct hath been with all imaginable respect towards Your Majesties Person And although the Answer we gave to Your Ambassadors Memorial be such as we shall always be ready to submit to the judgment of all Europe Yet upon complaint that it was obscure and insufficient we sent an Ambassador Extraordinary to Your Majesty and gave power to him as also to our Ordinary Ambassador to clear what should be thought obscure and to adde what should be necessary But instead of entring into regular Conferences with them and letting them know what was defective in our Answer they were neglected and no Conference granted them upon the point which might have ended all our differences till an hour after Your Majesties Declaration of War had been read and approved in Your Council All this SIRE doth sufficiently evidence with what application and zeal we have laboured to satisfie your Majesty and to extinguish in its birth a Fire which is ready to consume all Christendom And as we have not entred into this War but from an indispensable necessity of defending and protecting our Subjects we have ever since the Rupture as much as we were able sought Your Majesties Friendship and never given over the making overtures of Peace Upon which account we sent our Deputies Extraordinary to Your Majesty in the moneth of June of the year last past who were confined to Hampton Court without having any Audience given them or being heard what they had to say on our part A Minister from the Elector of Brandenburgh passed also into England upon the same subject and charged himself at our request with the representing to Your Majesty the ardent desire we had to see Your Majesty entertain other sentiments and our disposition to do any thing in our power to acquire again the honour of Your Majesties good Correspondence Since that upon the Proposition made by the Mediators of a general Truce for as much as according to our judgment we could not consent to it without hazarding the Safety of our State yet to evidence to Your Majesty how great a desire we had to give You all possible marks of our Respect and to the end to procure to Your Subjects all the advantages which they could have received from a general Truce we offered one by Sea to Your Majesty for the term of a year or a longer time if Your Majesty thought it convenient judging that in the condition things were then in we could not give a greater proof of the ardent passion we had to smooth the way to a happy Reconciliation then by putting all Your Majesties Subjects into a condition of tasting the sweetness of Peace while ours should suffer all the incommodities of War The Ministers of the King of Spain have represented from time to time the same things to Your Majesty and have often repeated their instances to incline Your Majesty to Peace But besides all these advances and the steps we have made in publick we have made use of other means which we judged more efficacious And His Highness the Prince of Orange as well of his own inclination as at the request we have several times reiterated to him hath used all imaginable ways of regaining the honour of Your Majesties friendship for us and representing to You the advantage and glory Your Majesty might acquire by re-establishing the Quiet