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A64741	The history of William de Croy, surnamed the Wise, governor to the Emperour Charles V being a pattern for the education of princes : containing the memorable transactions that happened during his administration in most of the courts of Christendom, from the year 1506 to the year 1521 : in six books / written in French by Mr. Varillas ... and now made English.; Pratique de l'éducation des princes. English	Varillas, Monsieur (Antoine), 1624-1696.	1687 (1687)	Wing V113; ESTC R22710	293,492	704

as the ancient Patriarchs did in a continual Pilgrimage and so to distribute his cares time travels and presence that the Low-Countries Germany and Italy would have the better share o● them and Spain the least That there was no other way to ward so dangerous a blow than by insensibly bringing back the Catholick King into the course that Nature and the Law of Nations required of him and by convincing him by his own experience that the elder of his Grandsons deserved better to succeed to him than the younger and that so all that Charles had to do was to become more virtuous and better qualified than Ferdinand Chievres advised Charles in relation to the two other Crowns of Spain which were those of Navarre and Portugal that it would be convenient to continue the Project of the Catholick King for reuniting them to the ●est of the Spanish Monarchy by means of ●lliances but that there was but little appearance that that could be so soon accomplished seeing on the one hand Catha●ine de Frix Queen of Navarre and ●ohn d' Albert her Son had such near Alli●nces with the Crown of France that ●ey would never dispose of their Children but with the consent and approbation of Louis the Twelfth And on the other hand Manuel King of Potugal had Five ●sty Sons by the Aunt of Charles his se●nd Wife and that by consequent the ●aughters of the same marriage could not ●pect to succeed so soon but that the ●gagement of the King of Navarre with t●e French might some time or other be ●…nare to him and that besides as the ●…sterity of Charlemain was extinct in the ●…ce of Eighteen years though it was so ●…merous that it consisted of thirty two ●…gorous Princes all married so that of Manuel might fail by a like or more unhappy Fate England was more important in all respects to Charles and his Governour advised him to look upon it at all times as a Kingdom able to do him great services and proportionably to hurt him for the Low-Countries in the condition they were then in needed not fear to succumb unless they had France for their Enemy and then they could not expect any assistance greater speedier more suitable to their necessity nor nearer at hand than that of the English That if the necessity of that assistance did not encrease after he came to the enjoyment of the Successions which he expected it would at least be as great seeing Spain would then become a Monarchy that might counterpoise France and none but England could be in a condition then to turn the balance to which side of the two it adhered That Charle● would always have the advantage of the French when he competed with them t● draw England over to his side since be sides the invincible antipathy betwixt the English and French Nation and the inveterate hatred fomented by so many Wars Henry the Eighth of England was marrie● to the last Infanta of Spain Sister to Charle his Mother and constantly favoured h● Father-in-law Ferdinand the Catholick against Louis the Twelfth In relation to Scotland it behoved Charles to reason from a quite opposite Maxime and that he must not expect upon any Juncture that could be offered to him to engage that King into his Interests The Alliance of that Nation with the French had without interruption continued seven hundred years from King to King and from Crown to Crown and though it had not been so old nor so strict yet it would be enough for the Scots that Spain courted the friendship of the English to make them declare against it for France though they had not as yet spoused any Party Italy came next in course into the thought of Chievres of which he only represented to the Archduke four principal Powers from whom the Inferiour were 〈◊〉 receive their influence to wit France ●pain the Holy See and the Republick of ●enice France held there the Dutchies of Genoa and Milan Spain the Kingdom of Naples ●…e Holy See ten Provinces besides the ●…ity of Rome and the Venetians the State ●hich is called Terra Firma The Italians ●…d no reason to fear that the Popes or ●enetians would trouble their repose because both had almost an equal interest to preserve it But if the French and Spaniards grew weary of Peace and took up Arms again they must infallibly have the same success which they already had that is to say that the Nation of the two which could get the Pope on their side would overcome and as the most Christian and the Catholick Kings did not conquer nor divide betwixt them the Kingdom of Naples but by the consent of Alexander the Sixth as the Spaniards had not driven the French from thence two years after but in pursuance of a secret Treaty concluded for that end betwixt the Great Captain and the same Alexander and as the Pope Julius the Second contributed most to hinder the most Christian King from recovering what he had lost by ruining the formidable Army of that Prince upon the side of the River of Garillan so the Spaniards in their turn would be driven out of the Kingdom of Naples whensoever it should be their misfortune to displease the same Julius or one of his Successours So that the Archduke in the sense of his Governour ought chiesly to apply himself to entertain his Holiness in the good disposition he was in in relation to Spain and if the matter was not difficult by reason that Julius hated Louis so much the more that formerly he loved him no more would it be in regard of succeeding Popes since on the one hand their State bordered immediately upon the Kingdoms of Naples and that they were next Neighbours whereas the Territories of divers Princes lay betwixt theirs and the Dutchy of Milan and that so the Court of Rome were not so much exposed to be surprised by an Invasion from the French as from the Spaniards and on the other hand it was not so much to be apprehended that the Spaniards would usurp all Italy if they retained the possession of Naples as it would be that France might reduce Italy into a Province if they added the Kingdom of Naples to the Dutchy of Milan because then they could march by Land into the Milanese having only the Alpes and Piemont to cross whereas the Spaniards could not go thither but by Sea and have a Voyage of five hundred Leagues to make The Republick of Venice according to Chievres was no less to be considered in matter of Politicks than the Court of Rome but for power it was not so much since the Holy See the Emperour France and Spain having entered into a League to ruine it Louis the Twelfth alone had defeated all its Forces at the Battel of Giaradadda and taken from it all it possessed in the Terra Firma It is true it afterward recovered part of that State but seeing it was not so easily regained as lost and that in all

Magistracy or Benefice in Castille Nay their forecast went a little farther and seeing they knew that the Arragonese and Flemings aspired only to their Offices and Benefices that they might convert the vast Revenues that belonged to them into ready money and transmit it into their own Country They revived one of their ancient Laws which upon pain of death prohibited the Exportation of Gold or Silver out of their Country without the consent of the States They inserted both these into the Articles which the Catholick King was to swear before he was owned for Monarch of Castille and presented them to him altogether He examined them with Chievres who immediately made his Master observe the cunning of the Castillians He represented to him that they intended to oblige him to conditions unknown to his Predecessors and that if he condescended to them the consequences thereof would be very bad for the house of Austria in general and in particular for him who ought to be the head of it That that house indeed was in a fair way of making the most powerful Monarchy that ever was in Christendom since the Family of Charlemagne but that that Monarchy would have a defect to which that of Charlemagne was not subject seeing the Territories of the house of Austria would be too remote one from another to afford mutual assistance in time of urgent necessity That there was no other remedy for that but to do in the Monarchy of Spain with some proportion what God hath done in the making of the Body of man wherein the parts are engaged by their own interest for the preservation one of another That if the Flemings and Arragonese were frustrated of the Magistracies and Benefices of Castille they would not put themselves to the trouble of assisting the Castillians against the Turks and Mores as if the Castillians enjoyed not the same priviledges in Arragon they would not vigorously oppose the French who threatned to take Arms again for restoring the posterity of John d' Albert to the Throne of Navarre That it was not the same in respect of the Flemings who could not indeed neither assist nor be assisted by Spain by Land France lying betwixt them But passage was open by Sea and as the Maritine Forces of the Low-Countries infinitely surpast those of Spain so Spain had incomparably more need of the Low-Countries than the Low-Countries had of it That the custom of giving Offices and Benefices to the Flemings in Castille must not be broken off then though the Castillians might not reciprocally have the like priviledges in Flanders and by consequence his Catholick Majesty ought not to engage himself in any thing to the contrary The Council approved the Arguments of Chievres who was afterwards Commissionated to adjust with the Deputies of Castille the manner how the King before he was acknowledged should take his Oath to maintain the priviledges of the Country The first conference was not over before Doctor Zumel who in quality of Deputy of the City of * Burgos was as yet the capital City of Castille Burgos was the chief of the rest and by consequence had right to speak before them perceived that Chievres was so well informed of the Laws and Customs of Castille that it would be impossible to impose upon him For Chievres made appear by a discourse no less eloquent than solid that the Kings of Castille had never engaged themselves neither not to bestow the Offices and Benefices of the Country upon strangers nor yet to hinder the Transportation of Gold and Silver out of the Kingdom He added that there had been no ground neither on the Castillians part to impose that obligation upon their Kings nor on the part of their Kings to charge themselves with it and proved it invincibly because Castille was neither delivered from the Tyranny of the Mores nor erected into a Monarchy nor enlarged at the cost of the Insidels but by the assistance of the French English and other Nations which the Croisadoes had drawn thither and the Castillians were so far from discouraging them by Laws and Customs which frustrated them of the Offices and Benefices of the Country that on the contrary there was a famous example of Alphonso the beloved who to hinder Henry of Burgundy from returning into France gave him his Daughter and Portugal That that Prince whose memory was so precious to the Spaniards and the other wise Founders of the Monarchy of Castille would have gone directly contrary to their own interests if they had acted otherwise seeing their Subjects not sufficing to inhabit the Countries which from time to time they recovered from the Mores nor to maintain them if they had reserved the Magistracies and Revenues of the Church for the Native Castillians they would have encouraged but a few to become their Country-men Whereas by admitting indifferently to the Offices and Benefices of Castille strangers as well as Natives they engaged them to their Country by the same bonds that they themselves were engaged to it That the same conduct was no less necessary in respect of Silver and Gold seeing it was known that most part of the excessive summs which the Kings of Castille had spent in their Conquests were not drawn neither from the Revenue of the Crown nor out of the purses of their subjects but had been furnished by the voluntary contributions of strangers concerned in the enlargement of the Christian Religion and that these strangers would not have continued as they did for many Ages their liberalities if the Castillians who received so much Gold and Silver from other people had been so ungrateful as to suffer none of it to return back into the places from whence it came By this discourse Zumel found that the Mine had taken vent and spent no more time in maintaining that the Articles in question were not novel He turned the affair another way and only told Chievres that if the thing were rightly taken neither he nor his Nephew were any way concerned in it That a long while ago their Letters of Naturalization had past in Castille and that his great places of high Chamberlain high Treasurer Steward of the Kings House and Head of the Council were in no danger no more than the Archbishoprick of Toledo to which his Nephew was provided That Castille being for the future to be the Center of the Monarchy of the house of Austria it were fit that it should have some priviledge more than the other Dominions which in respect of it would only be lookt upon as Provinces and that it desired no other but that the Native Castillians might be assured of their Offices Benefices their Gold and Silver and the wealth that might come to them from the Indies Chievres could not endure the opinion that the Spaniards had of him as if interest were capable to sway him He cunningly replied to Zumel that he well knew that neither he nor his Nephew had any way solicited for the Letters