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A36497	A discourse written by Sir George Downing, the King of Great Britain's envoy extraordinary to the states of the United Provinces vindicating his royal master from the insolencies of a scandalous libel, printed under the title of (An extract out of the register of the States General of the United Provinces, upon the memorial of Sir George Downing, envoy, &c.), and delivered by the agent De Hyde for such to several publick ministers : whereas no such resolution was ever communicated to the said envoy, nor any answer returned at all by their lordships to the said memorial : whereunto is added a relation of some former and later proceedings of the Hollanders / by a meaner hand.	Downing, George, Sir, 1623?-1684.	1672 (1672)	Wing D2108; ESTC R34994	50,712	177

of that Nation that he now endeavours to re-possess his subjects of those places which by the hand of Violence and Oppression the Dutch have forced from them Now as for the business of the New-Netherlands as they call it by I know not what Authority it hath been abundantly elsewhere proved That the said Land is part of the Possession of his Majesties subjects in New-England which their Charter plainly and precisely sheweth and expresseth and those few Dutch who lived there heretofore have lived there meerly upon the connivence and sufferance of the English which hath been permitted them so to do so long as they demeaned themselves peaceably and quietly But the Dutch not contenting themselves therewith have encroached more and more upon the English imposing their Laws and Customs and endeavouring to raise Contributions and Excises on them and in those places where the Dutch had never been whereupon they have been several times necessitated to send Soldiers for the repulsing them Since the Conclusion of the late Treaty the Dutch have made new Incursions upon the English and given them many new provocations and have ordained a Trial of Causes among themselves and a Proceeding by force of arms without any appealing into Europe at all And can any Prince then think it strange if his Majesty of England suffer his subjects to rescue themselves from such continual Vexations His most Christian Majesty in the year 1665 was pleased to order his subjects to re-possess themselves by force of arms of a certain place called Cayen which the French alledged had been wrongfully kept from them and detained by the West-India Company of the Netherlanders We might in the next place alledg De Ruyter's leaving the English Fleet when with united Counsels and Forces they were to act against their common Enemies the Pyrates and Barbarians in the Midland-Seas according to the Treaty soon after his Majesties happy Restauration We may alledg their Instructions given to Van Campen in the year 1664 at what time his Majesty entertained not any open War against them which Instructions was in down-right terms To attack and fall upon his Majesties Subjects in the West-Indies and to carve out their own Satisfaction and Reparation Lastly Their refusing to strike and denying his Majesty the Right of the Flag even in his own Seas Witness Sir Robert Holmes late meeting with Eight Dutch Men of War convoying their Smyrna-Fleet homewards which had no doubt come short of home had not that brave Commander been overpower'd with Numbers In which short but sharp Conflict as there was not an English-man which gave not large proof and demonstration of his Courage so particularly the Right Honourable the Earl of Ossery acted wonders that day almost baffling the belief of their eyes who were Spectators of his incredible Valour Thus I have in part drawn to the knowledg of all the Cruelties Ingratitudes Injuries and Wrongs done unto the English by the Treacherous Dutch yet not one hundred part of what they are and for their hainousness deserve only a Pen of Steel to record them in the wrinkled brow of Time there to remain to posterity And if all the Premises aforesaid be not cause enough to provoke his Majesty to maintain the Justice of his Cause by the Force of Arms we will leave to the World and to his Enemies themselves to judg And surely that Sword is to be feared that striketh with the Hand of Justice FINIS POSTSCRIPT THey that will needs bear all the World before them by their Mare Liberum may soon come to have Nec Terram nec Solum nec Rempublicam Liberum Neptune's welcome to his Royal Highness JAMES Duke of York upon his first appearance at Sea to Fight the Hollander AM I awake Or have some Dreams conspir'd To mock my Sense with what I most desir'd View I th' undaunted Face See I those looks Which with Delight were wont t' amaze my Brooks Do I behold that Mars that Man Divine The Worlds great Glory by these Waves of mine No I find true what long I wish'd in vain My much endeared Prince is come again So unto them whose Zenith is the Pole When six black Months bright Sol begins to role So comes Arabia's Wonder from the Woods And far far off is seen by Memphis Floods The feather'd Sylveans Cloud like by her flye And with triumphing Plaudits beat the skye To Virgins Flowers to Sun-burn'd Earth the Rain To Mariners Fair Winds amidst the Main Cold shades to such who by hot glances burn Are not so pleasing as thy blest Return Swell my proud Billows fail not to declare Your Joys as ample as his Conquests are And you my Nymphs rise from your moist repair And with your Lillies Crown this Princes Hair Kiss each his floating Castles which do run Upon our Waves swift as the Rising-Sun Eye of our Western-World Mars-daunting Prince Whose Valiant Deeds the World can't recompence For to thy Vertues and thy Deeds is due All that the Planet of the year doth view O Days to be desir'd Age happy thrice If you your Heaven-sent good could daily prize But we half Palsie-sick think never right Of what we hold till it be from our sight I see an Age when after some few years And Revolutions of the slow pac'd Sphears These days shall be 'bove others far esteem'd And like the World 's great Conquerers be deem'd The Names of Caesar and feign'd Paladine Grav'n in Times surly brows in Wrinkled-Time Shall by this Princes Name be past as far As Meteors are by the Idalian Star For to Great Brittains Isle thou shalt restore Her Mare Clausum Guard her Pearly shore The Lyons Passant of Dutch bands shalt free To the true Owner of the Lillies three The Seas shall shrink shake shall the spacious Earth And tremble in her Chamber like pale Death Thy thundring Cannons shall proclaim to all Great Britain's Glory and proud Holland's Fall Run on brave Prince thy course in Glory's way The End the Life the Evening crowns the Day Reap Worth on Worth and strongly sore above Those Heights which made the World thee first to love Surmount thy Self and make thy Actions past Be but as gleams or lightnings of thy Last Let them exceed those of thy younger time As far as Autumu doth the Flowry-prime So ever Gold and Bays thy Brow adorn So never Time may see thy Race outworn So of thine own still mayst thou be desir'd Of Holland fear'd and by the World admir'd Til thy great Deeds all former deeds surmount Thou 'st quel'd the Nimrods of our Hellespont So may his high Exploits at last make even With Earth his Honor Glory with the Heav'n FINIS Kings Decl.

years an ordinary practice which we have endeavoured in vain to reform by the ways of Justice and Treaties the World I think will now be satisfied that we have reason to look about us And no wise man will doubt that it is high time to put our selves in this Equipage on the Seas and not to suffer the Stage of Action to be taken from Us for want of Our appearance So you see the general ground upon which our Counsels stand In particular you may take notice and publish as cause requires That His Majesty by this Fleet intendeth not a rupture with any Prince or State nor to infringe any point of His Treaties but resolveth to continue and maintain that happy Peace wherewith God hath blessed His Kingdom and to which all His Actions and Negotiations have hitherto tended as by your own Instructions you may fully understand But withal considering that Peace must be maintained by the Arm of Power which only keeps down Warr by keeping up Dominion His Majesty thus provoked finds it necessary even for His own defence and safety to reassume and keep his ancient and undoubted Right in the Dominion of these Seas and to suffer no other Prince or State to encroach upon Him thereby assuming to themselves or their Admirals any Soveraign Command but to force them to perform due homage to His Admirals and Ships and to pay them acknowledgments as in former times they did He will also set open and protect the free Trade of his Subjects and Allies and give them such safe Conduct and Convoy as they shall reasonably require He will suffer no other Fleets or Men of Warr to keep any Guard upon these Seas or there to offer violence or take Prizes or Booties or to give interruption to any lawful intercourse In a word His Majesty is resolved as to do no wrong so to do Justice both to His Subjects and Friends within the limits of His Seas And this is the Real and Royal Design of this Fleet. Whitehall April 16. 1635. Your assured Friend and Servant JOHN COOK Nay farthermore you may see the Dominion of His Majesty in His Brittish Seas clearly represented asserted and fully proved by that Propriety of Title and Soveraignty of Power which the Duke of Venice exerciseth on the Adriatick Sea if you will consult Mr. Howel in his Commonwealth of Venice which by the manner of Prescription the Consent of Histories and even by the Confession of their Adversaries themselves is almost the same with his Majesties of Great Britain But his Majesty hath one Title more above all theirs which is the Title of Successive Inheritance confirmed as well by the Law of Nature as of Nations and is so much the more considerable in regard of the infinite advantages of the Profits of it as the Brittish Ocean in its latitude and circumference exceedeth the small boundaries of the Gulph of Venice Yet so it is that the Indulgence of the Kings of England to their Neighbouring-Nations especially to the Hollanders by giving them too much liberty hath encouraged them to assume a liberty to themselves and what at the first was but a License they improve into a Custom and make that Custom their Authority insomuch that some of the most busie of them have openly declar'd against the King's Propriety on the Brittish Seas Amongst these is one Hugo Grotius a Gentleman of great Ingenuity but in this particular so inclined to obey the importunities and serve the interests of his Countrey-men that he disobliged himself of the Dutch and moreover to speak the truth of his Conscience it self for if you look into his Sylvae upon the first Inauguration of King James he is pleased to express himself in these words Tria Sceptra Profundi in Magnum cojere Ducem which is that the Rights of the English Scottish and Irish Seas are united under one Scepter neither is he satisfied with this bare profession Sume animos a Rege tuo quis det jura Mari Take courage from the King who giveth Laws unto the Seas In the same Book in the contemplation of so great a Power he concludeth Finis hic est qui fine caret c. This is an End beyond an End a bound that knoweth no bound which even the Winds and the Waves must submit unto But with what Ingratitude have the Dutch answered the many Royal Favours which the Kings of England have almost perpetually conferred on them If there be no Monster greater than Ingratitude what Monsters are these men who of late are so far from acknowledging their thankfulness that like Vipers they would feed upon and consume those bowels which did afford them life and spirit We may observe that in their lowest condition which is most suitable to the name of their abode called the Low-Countreys they petitioned to the Majesty of the Queen of England whose Royal Heart and Hand being always open to those that were Distressed especially those that were her Neighbours upon the account of Religion she sent them Threescore thousand pound in the year 1572 and presently after there followed Four Regiments of Foot and after them the Warr encreasing there were sent over Col. North Col. Cotton Col. Candish and Col. Norris with other Persons of Quality who for the Honour of the English Nation made in that Warr excellent Demonstrations of their Valour and redeem'd the Dutch from the Power of those who otherwise would have brought them to a better understanding of their duties At the last the Prince of Orange being slain presently after the death of the Duke of Alanson Brother to Henry the Third of France the Queen of England sent over to them Robert Duke of Leicester with great provision both of Men and Money accompanied with divers of the Nobility and Gentry of good account and although the said Earl not long afterwards returned into England and the affairs of the Hollander were doubtful till the fatal battel at Newport yet Queen Elizabeth of ever blessed memory out of her unspeakable goodness to the Distressed and to those that suffered for Religion did as long as she lived assist the Hollanders both with Men and Moneys she gave them hope in despair gave them strength when weak and with the charity of Her Princely Hand did support them when fallen And although the Hollanders do ungratefully alledg That it was a benefit great enough for the English to assist them in Reason of State because by so doing they kept out a War from their own Countrey It is most certain that at that time the English had no cause to fear a War at all but only for their Cause and for the taking their parts for it was for their Cause that the English in the year 1571 had seized upon the sum of Six hundred thousand Ducats on the West of England being the Money designed from Spain to the Duke d'Alva for the advancement of the Spanish Interests in the Netherlands And although the Hollanders do