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A71313	Vox cœli, or, Nevves from heaven Of a consultation there held by the high and mighty princes, King Hen.8. King Edw.6. Prince Henry. Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and Queene Anne; wherein Spaines ambition and treacheries to most kingdomes and free estates in Europe, are vnmasked and truly represented, but more particularly towards England, and now more especially vnder the pretended match of Prince Charles, with the Infanta Dona Maria. Whereunto is annexed two letters written by Queene Mary from heauen, the one to Count Gondomar, the ambassadour of Spaine, the other to all the Romane Catholiques of England. Written by S.R.N.I.	Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 20946.8; STC 22096A; ESTC S114764	52,214	72

the Oracle of the Netherlands but the Ornament and wonder of Europe ye●… of his time Q. E. See the fruites of Spaines Gold and the effects of his boundlesse Ambition for it is a common custome with him if not by the maine yet surely by the bye to breake the necke of Great Princes and free Estates publique Ministers whether they are great Souldiers or great Statesmen or both Q. A. Yea the Web of this Treason was so cunningly wouen and so subtilly and finely spun as if the Netherlands had not broken Barne●…elts necke he long ere this had assuredly broken the necke both of their libertie and State Q. M. Well Barnauelt is gone and now Spaine needs not feare his policy P. H. Nay Barneuelt being dead and Maurice that famous Prince of Orenge liuing Holland need not feare either the trechetie or force of Spaine H. 8. But Nephew I heare that the Vnited Prouinces of the Low-Countries will this Spring haue Warres with Spaine for their peace is neere expired and ended P. H. A braue noble and wise resolution of theirs E. 6. Heretofore England taught the Hollanders wit and valour and now they resolue to shew England the way to those two Vertues Q. M. But the Gold and Siluer of Spaine w●…ll preuaile against them and weigh them downe P. H. But the Hollanders had Ships enough of their owne and Gold Siluer and Men from England therefore they disdaine to feare Spaine nay rather they vow before the next Summer to make Spaine feare them H. 8. See see a handfull of men dare attempt that against Spaine which Great Brittaines huge infinitie will not Q. E. And yet their cause and reason is Englands viz. their Consciences Liues and Countries Q. A. Pray God England and France interpose not to crosse the Warres and seeke to conclude a Peace betwixt Holland and Spaine E. 6. But the Hollanders are resolued to make King Iames a large Offer to protect them against Spaine Q. M. But King Iames loues Spaine too well and therefore will not hearken to or regard their proffer for his Maiestie is resolued not to protect them P. H. The more is the pitty Q. E. The more my griefe Q. M. And without griefe or pitty the more is my ioy Q. E. I protected the Netherlands in despight of Spaine E. 6. But Spaine went neere by your Leicester to betray both you and them H. 8. If King Iames would now protect the Netherlanders how easily might he refetch backe Flushing the Brill and the 〈◊〉 E. 6. Nay how easily did his Maiestie depart with them to the Netherlands P. H. It infinitely reioyceth me to vnderstand the Hollanders braue resolution and forwardnesse to haue warres with Spaine Q. M. But there is a secret tricke to coole their courages which they least thinke of H. 8. As how Daughter Q. M. Why to Pistoll this Prince of Orenge as they did his Fat●…er Q. E. Heauen forbid it P. H. God defend it Q. M. Why 't is but one for another for he knowing Barnauelt a Traytor to his Countr●…y because a Pensioner to Spaine caused the Lords States to put him to death why then in exchange and requitall should not a Pensioner of Spaine either poison or pistoll the Prince of Orange E. 6. These Diabolicall resolutions and bloudy Positions come from Hell Q. E. And thither they goe that professe and practise them Q. M. The King of Spaine is too religious to authorise so execrable a Murther Q. E. But the Pope as holy as he is will pardon it and yet the World I hope knowes that the K●…of Spaine cannot be so religious as his Holinesse Q. A. It were good then for Holland to be carefull of their Prince of Orange his life as all the world knowes his Excellency is of their safetie and preseruations P. H. And it will likhwise behooue them to obserue withall as I hope they doe how subtilly and trecherously Spinola takes their neighbour Townes for the Emperour and keepes them for the King of Spaine his Master E. 6. And if the Warres goe on 'twixt Holland and Spaine as I hope they will it will be needfull for Spaine to haue a speciall care of his West-Indies from the Holland Fleetes H. 8. Wherefore only Spaines West-Indies or rather why not all the worlds West-Indies sith their red and white earth sets all the Would on fire and in Combustion Q. ●… Surely ere this Summer passe and the next appeare the Hollanders vow to haue a heaue at them Q. M. Nay I hope the contrary for the West-Indies is the maine and onely prop of Spaine which if once found out and taken away from them will quickly make the greatnesse of his Ambition and Empire totter P. H. Till when all other Kingdomes and Estates of Christendome may thinke themselues exempt from Spaines feare but shall neuer be from his danger Q. E. This Holland perfectly and apparantly knowes and it were a greater happinesse for the rest of Europe if they would herein imitate their Generositie Valour and Wisedome who stand on their Guards with their swords drawne and their Match lighted ready to giue fire as being constantly and vertuously resolued neither to loue trust nor feare Spaine ENGLAND H. 8. But now leaue we all other Countries and come wee to England from whence being descended wee by the Lawes of Nature are eternally obliged to honour and loue it yea to preferre it and its prosperitie and glory to all other Countries of the world wherefore let vs see Spaines Ambition and Enuy towards it and how he hath from time to time borne himselfe to the English Q. M. There is no Kingdome in the world that Spaine loues better then England Q. E. Nor no people vnder the Sunne that it hates more then Englishmen E. 6. For Peter King of Castille most ingratefully and basely abused our famous and generous Edward the Blacke Prince the Ornament of Armes the Glory of England and the Honour of the World and his whole Army in Spaine after that he had inthronised and seated the said Peter in his Kingdome and with his Victorious Armes expel'd Henry the Bastard who Vsurped it Q. M. If Spaine had not loued England and Englishmen King Philip would neuer haue married mee Q. E. Hee loued you well Sister but your Kingdome farre better for you were the Obiect of his zeale but England that of his Ambition H. 8. But Elizabeth hee hated you more then euer he loued Mary Q. E. And yet I dare truly affirme that King Philip loued my Kingdome farre more then euer he hated my Per●…on H. 8. To speake truth Daughter he neither loued you nor Mary his wife and Queene but only England P. H. And I haue heard that if he had neuer married my Aunt Mary shee had neuer lost Calais nor consequently England France E. 6. Though that Match were vnfortunate to England in the losse of Calais yet it was fortunate in that Philip and Mary had no Children Q.

no assistance from England for the Pope the King of Spaine Gondomar the Iesuites and English Recusants will in few yeares so shuffle and deale the cards as England shall not bee able to assist herselfe much lesse her Neighbours E. 6. Why that is the way in a few more yeares to make England a Prouince to Spaine Q. E. Yea yea there is the mysterie for if the match with Spaine hold the conquest of England will vndoubtedly follow then Gondomar can be no lesse then Vice-roy or great Commander of England for the King and Councell of Spaine will iudge him worthy of this honour because he hath deserued it P. H. It were better Spaine were Hell and Gondomar Vice-roy to the Diuell as he is now Ambassadour to the Catholicke King Q. A. But is it possible that the King of Spaine hath so little Iustice and charity and so much vanitie and ambition to desire it E. 6. The Kings of Spaine make this the tenth Article of their Creed that the Rules of Empire and State ought to giue Lawes but not to receiue any Q. E. But this is contrary to the Lawes of the KING of Kings Q. M. But in the Counsell of Spaine the Rules of State are alwaies too sublime and powerfull for those of Religion yea the Pope will easily dispence with the King of Spaine to make a Conquest of England either by treachery hostilitie or the match for it is against an Heriticke King and people who refuse to enter into the bosome of the Church and therefore lawfull in it selfe because it tends to the Catholique cause the displanting and rooting out of Heretikes and the establishing and pres●…uation of the Romane Catholikes in England Q. E. Those giddy and passionate Romane Catholiques of England who disire to fish in troubled waters who delight in nothing but in innouation and nouelty and who make a May-game of Conscience and an Ape of Religion may peraduenture flatter themselues with the false sunne-shine of these hopes but those of them whose hearts are better lodged and whose eyes and iudgements can see farther and clearer Those I say who know by the Lawes of Grcae and Nature what they owe to GOD to their lawfull Prince and Country those remember that the Duke of Medina Sydonta said in eighty eight who was then Generall of the Spanish Fleete that his Commission was not to distinguish of Religion but to make a passage with his Sword ore both Religions without exception that thereby the King his Master might haue the easier way and fairer passage to the Crowne and Kingdome of England Therefore wee neede no perspectiue Glasse or Spectacles to see that it is not the establishing of the Romane Religion but of himselfe in England whereat the King of Spaine still aymes Q. M. 〈◊〉 Count Gondomar is wise enough to prouide a playster for that sore for hee in netling the Nobler sort of Catholiques with the match hath in plaine tearmes giuen the lye to the Duke of Medina his speech and therefore he hopes they will beleeue him P. H. The nobler and more passionate and factious sort of them may beleeue Gondomnr herein but the wiser temporate and conscious will not and yet the Feminine Gender are Masculine sticklers and solicitors for him as hee and the Iesuites are for the King his Master Q. E. Nay the Romane Catholikes of England haue reason to beleeue Gondomar sith King IAMES loues him well as hee esteemes his speeches Oracles and Scripture and who with the quintessence of his Castillian or rather Galician braine hath now brought matters to this passe that no sincere aduise honest Letter Religious Sermon or true picture can point at the King of Spaine but they are called in and their Authors imprisoned in sted of rewarded though neuer so honest and loyall Subiects H. 8. But me thinkes that this is no subtill policie of Gondamar for the more he striues to suppresse the truth the more it will flourish and preuaile For for the good of England if one penne or tongue bee commaunded to silence they will occasion and set tenne at libertie to write and speake as Grasse or Cammomell which the more it is depressed the thicker it will spread and grow Q. M. But hath not Gondomar reason to strike whiles he findes the Iron hot and to take the benefit of the floud before the ebbe come or the tide be spent Q. A. Indeed they say hee reports that this Summer time the ayre of London and Islington is not sweete enough either for his Fistula or perfumed braine and that hee hath thereforefore gotten leaue of his Maiestie to lodge in a part of his Pallace of Greenwich which stands in so pure an Ayre vpon the pleasant Christall Riuer of Thames Q. E. That were a presumptuous part of Gondomar indeed to aspire to lodge in that pleasant and Royall Pallace of Greenwich Q M. But if it bee so I thinke it is not to lodge there himselfe but onely to square out the Infanta's Lodgings her Chamber of Presence and a Plot to build her Grace a Chappell against shee come whereof Iones Sir Innigo hath already the Modell in his braines P. H. If King IAMES my Father lodge Gondomar this Summer in Greenwich the next King Philip himselfe will hope to lye in White-Hall E 6. Nay soft first let his Daughter the Infanta come for shee must breake the Ice ere his Catholique Maiestie will dare aduenture to come passe the Seas hither Q. M. Aduenture to come why wherefore else saith Count Gondomar lyes King IAMES his Fleete at Alciant and Carthagena but to transport her for England this Summer Q. E. Vntill I am enforced to vnderstand that that Fleete is at Lisbone the Groyne or Saint Andera I will not beleeue it but then I will feare it Q. M. So the Heretike Protestants of France feared their Spanish matches and yet we see they prosper Q. A. It is the end which crownes the beginning not the beginning the end of a worke Q. E. What speake you Sister of the French matches with Spain●… to this of England and Spaine for all the World knowes that the Estates of England and France are Diametrically opposite in point of Religion for France hath fortie Papists for one Protestant and England fortie Prot-stants for one Papist Q. M. But those Protesting Heretikes of England will sing another tune when they see the King of Spaine hath made their Countrey his Prouince P. H. Heauen forbid that euer England should sing the tune of Spaines Ballad or Spaine liue so long to make England see that dismall and bloudy day Q. E It were farre better that Prince CHARLES were married to an English Milke-maid and the Infanta of Spaine mewed vp for a Nunne in a Cloyster Q A. Yea for how can my Sonne Prince CHARLES thinke the King of Spaine loues him when he sees that vnder-hand he is a mortall and professed Enemy to his Brother and Sister the King and Queene of

or my Counsell and my Countrey reioyced Q. A. Gondomar hath had time enough to know my Husband King Ianes but it seemes King Iames hath not yet enough deeply pryed into Gondomar In a word I know his Maiesty hath heard his tongue but not seene his hart much lesse the designes and resolutions of the King and Counsell of Spaine which are inuelloped and hood-winked vnder the Mysterie of this match H. 8. Indeed I haue read that King Phillip King of Macedon went neere to haue betrayed Arisbes King of Molesses of his Kingdome vnder treating a Match with him Q. M. O but that Phillip of Macedon was a Heathen King and this Phillip of Spaine is the Catholike King therefore King Iames need not feare his sinceritie in the Match Q. E. Sith you are so religious Sister pray say how doth the Inquision of Spaine like to Match their Infanta to an Heretique Prince for so I know they terme my Noble Nephew Prince Charles P. H. Why Digby could haue resolued you of that long since for he knowes that the sacred and reuerend Inquisition of Spaine loue England but not the match our Countrie but not our Religion and people and yet in hope to roote out Heretikes and to plant England with Romane Catholiques they oppose not the Match but rather giue way to it and approue it Q. E. But can Royall King Iames and his Illustrious Sonne Prince Charles obserue their Religion and Conscience in consenting to this Matcb or haue the Clergie of England warrant enough Authenticall out of the word of God to say Amen to it Q. A. O no for King Iames though not the Prince and Clergie will now make Religion and Conscience Handmaydes to wait and attend the State E. 6. But his Maiesty should doe farre better to defend the Faith whereof he is the defender and therein the State which professeth the true and sincere Religion of Christ and his Apostles sith Plety is the preseruer of Kingdomes and all our actions whatsoeuer should tend to the glory of God which is the banishing of Idolatry and Superstition with their effects and causes Q. M. Why pray what Marriage so religious as for Prince Charles to match with the Catholique King his Daughter Q. E. Sister you haue still Religion in your tongue but I feare we shall finde none in your heart for pray what places haue you of diuine Scripture to authorize and approue this Match of Prince Charles with the Infanta sith they are of a different Religion and Beliefe Q. M. As I confesse I haue none to approue it so I am sure you all cannot alleadge any one to oppose and contradict it H. 8. Yes I produce Gen. Ch. 24. Ch 16. against it E 6. And I Exod. Ch. 34. Iudg. Ch. 17. Q. E. And I Iosh. Ch. 23. 2. Chron. Ch. 21. P. H. And I 1. Kings Ch. 11. Chap. 16. Q. A. And I Ezra Ch. 9. Nehem. Ch. 13. Q. M. Well whatsoeuer you say this Match notwithstanding tends to Gods glory and the good of the Catholique and Apostolique Church and in the end you shall finde that Gondomars policie and Spaines Ambition will triumph ore your Scripture Q. E. This match tends onely to bring in the Pope into our Churches and the King of Spaine into our estate for that is the ayme of the first the Ambition of the second and the obiect and hopes of both and I feare a few yeares will proue it so if in time it bee not remedied and preuented which GOD of his mercie graunt for 't is true all the wheeles of Gondomars Art and inuention are at worke to effect and accomplish it Q. M. The Pope I must confesse as Christs Vicar Generall on Earth desires that England were Catholique but for the good King of Spaine hee hath Kingdomes enough of his owne and therefore lookes not after England onely he desires to see the Match consummated P. H. Yes the King of Spaines tongue hath so long watred and his mouth gaped for England that after Spaine hee wisheth England were his aboue all the Countries of the World and his Catholique Maiestie is very confident that this Match will giue a maine stroke to the businesse Q. E. If he once haue England hee will presently assume the Title of Emperour of the West as King Philip his Father was resolued to doe a little before his death yea his Ambition was so violent as hee missing of England would haue proclaimed himselfe Emperour of Spaine and had not his Councell diuerted and preuented him he would haue sailed to Mexico and there inuested and intituled himselfe Emperour of America P. H. And I haue heard that Gondomar hath giuen the King of Spaine his Maister good hope of England for 't is certaine that hee not long since wrote to the Dukes Lerma and Pastranna that the report of the strength of England resembled those huge Pageants and Colosses erected at Rome as the Caesars past from the Meluine bridge to the Capitoll in triumph who were outwardly glorious and within filled onely with strawe and poore combustable stuffe E. 6. Indeed it is the shame and weaknesse of England that Spaine is no better acquainted with its strentgh Q. A. And t is my griefe that Spaine should see Englands weaknesse and not feele its strength Q. E. O but it is the Spanish Match which will giue fire to England and make her welter in her miseries and flame in her calamities and afflictons Q. M. No no that Match will keepe the Temple of Englands peace from firing H. 8. Yea as Erostratus did that of Diana of Ephesus which in one day consumed all the wealth that rich Asia had bin many yeares and ages getting Q. A. As Religion is the powerfullest passion of our Soule so there is no stronger lincke of Friendship then Conscience and therefore I hope my Sonne Charles will not consent to match the Infanta of Spaine Q. M. But one of his chiefest Vertues is his obedience to the King his Father for although the Prince be his Son yet hee knowes he is his Subiect Q. A. All the world cannot better teach the Prince my Sonne to obey the King his Father then already hee knowes and doth but I could wish that King Iames my Husband would not inforce his affection to this Spanish Match Q. E. If he marry the Infanta she may proue a false and vnsecret Secretary to the Prince her Husband and a dangerous Princesse to the State for hee giuing her his heart his Highnesse can hardly reserue any corner for himselfe P. H. Yea then euery Spanish Traytor and English Rebell will shroud themselues vnder the authority and greatnes of the Princesse E. 6. So if England match with Spaine Spaine vndoubtedly will in a short time ouer-match England Q. A. And infallibly take the Crowne from it Q. M. Borrow it peraduenture to see it not to weare it P. H. I feare to weare it neuer to returne it H. 8. Yea for once gone it