them And after the triumphes and treacherous progression of the house of Austria in Germany The King of Spaine hath now made a body of his and the Imperiall forces and this Summer intends to play his bloody prize for the totall ruine and subversion of the Netherlands who to the eye of the world and to humane iudgement must shortly sink if the two Kings of great Brittaine and France doe not make them swim by speedily sending them braue succours and assistance in this their vrgent necessitie And whereunto tends all this treacherous ambition and formidable vsurpation and greatnesse of the King of Spaine but to cut out a passage with his sword and to make his troopes and regiments flye o're the Alpes for his erecting and obtaining of the Westerne Empire And whereunto tends it I say but to make his territories and Dominions to encirculize great Brittaine and France yea to be their Cloyster and to make and esteeme those two famous Monarchies but onely as a fatall Church-yard to burie and interre themselues in But Illustrious and generous Sirs is this all the malice and treachery which Spaine hath offered towards England O no nothing lesse for vpon that iourney which was as dangerous as suddaine of our Prince into Spaine then whom the world hath not a braver Hath not the King of Spaine dealt treacherously with him about his match with the Infanta his Sister yea have they not in his Princely person violated the Lawes of Hospitality and the Priviledges of Princes when being vnder his own roofe by attempting to tye him to formes which were diametrally opposite to his honour yea to be so audaciously impudent as with much violency and virulency to seeke to put a rape vpon his Conscience and Religion in their profered enforcement of his ConversioÌ„ to Popery as if their Infanta had bin to him more precious then his soule or that he had beene so wretchedly grounded and instructed in pietie that his Highnesse would haue forsaken his God purposely to haue obayed and adored the King of Spaine who is not nor cannot be a greater King then he is a Prince And to step yet a degree farther was it not a hellish policie and a diabolicall designe and resolution of the Councell of Spaine to advise our Prince vpon his return into England to warre vpon the Protestants and to proffer him an Army to suppresse and exterminate them The Protestants I say who are those by whom our King his Father raigneth and without whom his Maiestie can never subsist nor raigne nor his highnesse successively aspire or hope to aspire to his Crownes and kingdomes after him sith they are the life the vigour the heart and the soule thereof And will our King and our Prince our Parliaments and our Protestants of England then ever forget this inveterate rage and infernal malice of Spain against them as also the rest of their imperious and insulting cariage towards his Highnes and towards great Brittaine as if they priz'd it at so low a rate and made their boundles ambition so excessively over-value their own Spain that that were in the Crisis of her weakenes and misery and this in the prime verticall point of her power and glory And when his Highnes pressed them for the restitution of the Palatinat which they had ofteÌ„ promised to the King his Father then they temporized so cunningly and subtillized so treacherously with him that every day brought forth new delayes and difficulties till in the end they had made the cure worse then the disease having taken firm footing therein were enforced to vnvaile vnmask their dissimulation and faintly and coldly to affirme that they would treate with the Emperour for the restitution thereof but could not promise it Thus having abused first our King the Father and then our Prince the Sonne they have now likewise betrayed and ruined our Princesse the Daughter in their final Conquest and resolute detention of the Prince her Husbands Palatinate that Princesse I say whose royal and sublime vertues make her the honour of her time the ornament of her sexe and the Phaenix Princesse of the world VVhereunto adding the absolute breach of the Match long since prophetically delacerated and cast in Heaven by the Princely and Royall Authors of this Consultation and since the same breach here on earth likewise so happily confirmd by the King as also by the Prince so all these premises considered hath not EnglaÌ„d reason to hate Spain in regard Spaine hates it especially because of these two main ensuing points important considerations First for that the King of Spaine is a greater more professed Enemy to our sacred King his royall posteritie then either the Emperour or Duke of Bavaria and is so to be held and esteemed of vs. Secondly that therefore to denounce warre to him and to make it good as soone as it is denounced is as Honourable as necessary and as iust as honorable for England As vpon New yeares day last I made these two points apparent and manifest to the King in my Discourse intituled Votivae Angliae which I sent his Maiestie in the behalfe and favour of the Prince Palatine his sonne in law for the restoration of his Palatinate Hauing thus with as much disdaine as griefe seene his inveterate malice towards great Brittaine towards our King and his Royall posterity and consequently the eminent danger wherinto our profound security hath throwne precipitated vs in particular and vnderstanding likewise how the said King of Spaine with Xerxes threatens the Seas and Mountaines of Europe in generall Being as well in heart as tongue an Englishman and therefore knowing by Grace what I owe by Nature to my naturall Prince and Countrey like Cressus his dumbe sonne I would not I could not be silâ—nt thereat but must expose this Consultation of Vox Coeli to the light and sight of the world I meane to the light of your knowledge and the sight of your consideration vnder the secure Target and safe shelter and sanctuary of your auspicious protection To you therefore great Brittaines greatest Palladines and Champions to you the invincible Bulwarke of our King and his Royall progenie and the inexpugnable Cittadell and Acrocorinth of our Estate To you I say the conscript Fathers of our supreamest Senate doth it in duty present it selfe and in humility prostrate it selfe which when your first leisure hath curiously read and your best zeale carefully and maturely considered Then by all that true English blood which streameth in your heart veines by all the love which your Country beares you and by all the duty and affection which reciprocally you owe to your Country I both request and coniure you To tell our King that it is nothing for his Maiestie to haue made a braue and generous Declaration of warres against Spaine except he speedily second it with execution without which it will proue a vaine Fantasma and an abortiue Embrion Tell him that it
Instrument and executioner to cut off the two noble heads of Biron in Paris and D' Albigny in Turin Q.M. Why the Catholique King is the vniversall King and therefore it is not strange if in all Countries of the world hee haue his farre fetch'd policies Agents and Instruments to make his stratagems and resolutions take effect for those who are obstacles to his will and pleasure his verball friendship shall alwayes prove their reall overthrow and subversion howsoeuer he and his Ministers pretend and make shew of the contrary Q.A. Nay let vs leaue Biron and D'Albigny in their Graves for mee thinkes it is a poore charity to rake vp the ashes of the dead And for our better information let vs take a survey of the courtesie or rather of the cruelty that Spaine hath offered Savoy E. 6. None knowes nor can deliuer the particular truth thereof so well as your Royall Sonne Prince Henry Q.M. But I feare my Nephew will be too partiall in the delivery hereof betweene the King of Spaine and the Duke of Savoy because I haue heard that of the two Princesses their daughters he preferd that of Savoy before this of Spaine H. 8. No no my Nephew Henry is a iudicious and iust Prince therefore I know hee will not wrong Spaine to doe right to Savoy Q. A He resembles King Iames his Father to well whoe will still loue the King of Spaine although therein he hate him selfe therefore speake on fayre Sonne P. H When Great Henry of France my honoured Vncle made warres vpon the present Duke of Sauoy for the recouery of his Marquisat of Saluses then this Phillip King of Spaine vnder the pretence and shewe to ayd the Duke his brother in Lawe against the French sent him many troopes and Regiments of Spanyards for the preseruation of his State when the peace being made betwixt the King and the Duke and the exchange for Saluses with the Countreyes of Bresse and Gex ratified and acomplished These Spanish Regiments being quartered in Carbonieres Mountemellion Savillan Pignoroll and other places of Sauoy Piedmont they vpon no reqvest or assommons made them by the Duke would depart thence but being commaunded the Contrary by the Count de Fuentes Viceroy of Millan as he was from the King his Master from Spaine they peremptorily resolued and vowed to keepe firme footing which they along time did vntill at last that wise Valiant Duke being thereunto constrained for the securitie of his estate whose emmynent and vtter subuersion he apparantly sawe before his eyes he very nobly cutt all their throates H. 8. Beleeue me his Highnesse of Sauoy did well for it was an act most worthy of his iudgement and generositie Q M. But the King of Spaine the Dukes of Lerma Pastrama Denia Albecurque Tolleao and all the Counsell of warre of Spaine vowe to haue their reuenge of this affront Q. E. Spaine hath done his woorst to Sauoy alreadie for as long as France loues Sauoy Sauoy needs not feare Spaine at least mine Authors tell me soe who are that famous Captaine the Duke of Dedis guieres his valiant son De Crequy noble Du Termes Q. A. Though this one wronge be one too many yet is these all the wronges that this King of Spaine hath offered this Duke of Sauoy P. H. Noe Madame for although the Duke winke and seemes with father Aubigny to haue the art of forgettfullness yet he well remembers how Don Iuan de Taxis Spaines Ambassadour in France told Lullins Arconas and Alimes his Highnesse Ambassadours at Lyons that the Kinge his master would Contribute towards the Exchange of the marquisat of Saluces conditionally it remayned on that side the Alpes from the French and since how his Catholique Maiestie hath performed nothing He remembers Spaines Plott vpon his Castle of Nice the key not only of his Countryes but of Italy when his Spanish Galleyes lay at Villa franca to bereaue him of his Children He remembers how the Spanish Cardynalls oppose his precedency at Rome with the Duke of Florence and how the Catholike King or his Viceroy of Millan for him was the match and Incendiary to set fire twixt the Duke of Mātoua him for the Marquisate of Montferrad Q. E. Wee may see what a kind brother in Lawe the King of Spaine is and what it is to build vpon his affiance afinity promises and asistance P. H. I am glad the Duke of Savoy and the Princes his children haue now purchased the length of Spaines foote E. 6. They haue reason to haue it for they were all enforced to take it with their swordes Pikes and Lances at Cassall◠Verceile and other wheres Q. A. As longe as Savoy loues not Spaine The Marquis of Lullius and Monseur De Gabaleon told me it needes not feare it Q. M. O but as long as Spaine Knockes at the gates of Sauoy and Piedmond he may at last enter Q. E. Sauoy hath reason to enter Millan not Spaine Sauoy Q. M. But tyme and the policie and Swords of Spaine cut all donations and rightes in peeces P. H. Savoy hath had warninges enough to beware of Spaine and therefore as I euer loued that generous Duke soe I hope that he and the Illustryous valliant Princes his Sonnes will neuer want armes of steele and heartes of Diamonds to our braue Spaine who with such ambition and malice seekes to out braue it France H. 8. But what sayes France of Spaine Q. M. My honoured father all the world knowes that Spaine hath euer loued France well Q. E. Yea too too well and so well as France will neuer loue Spaine much lesse trust it in requitall Q M. Why hath not Spaine reason to ballance and counterpoise the power and greatnesse of France P. H. Yea but not to seeke to make that famous flourishing Kingdome become a Prouince to Spaine Q. M. Spayne neuer wish't it much lesse attempted it Q. E. Yeares more often then France hath Prouinces or Spayne Cittyes P. H. Why who was the Avthor and Protector of the League but first Spaine then the Pope and next the Devill Q. M. O that was onely to preserue Catholiques and the Catholique Religion and to exterminate and roote out Heretiques and was not this well done of the King of Spaine sith he is the Catholique King E. 6. Nay now the least child in France knowes that Religion was onely the pretext but Empire and Dominion the obiect of that League How else dared Mendoza Spaines Ambassadour in Paris seeke the Crowne of France for the Infanta of Spaine or how els dared the Iesuites his ministers in their seditious Sermons and pernicious Pamphlets aduance her right to the Crowne and Kingdome when God and the world knowes shee had none to it Q. M. Why it was when God had caused that good Fryer Iames Clement to kill that bad King Henry the third at Saint Clou and when indeede that Kingdome was without a head and then the King of Spaine had reason to
aduance his Daughters Title to France in right of her mother Elizabeth that Queene of Peace notwithstanding the fundamentall power of the Salique Law to the contrary H. 8. You are deceiued daughter for it was a good King and a bade Fryer or rather a Diuell in a Fryers weede to set handes on the Lords anoynted but this arrow came out of the quiuer of Spaine and Hell for that bloudie and execrable murther was no sooner perpetrated but then Instantly followed the proposition of the Infantaes Title to France which apparantly makes the murther to be Spaynes Q.M. It was the Dukes of Mayene Mercuaeur who drewe the King of Spayne to assist the League and in it France Q. E. No No Contrariewise it was the Kinge of Spayne that debouchd and drewe these two Dukes and with them almost all the Nobilitie to forge and contriue this League and in it to ruine France for already France was almost Spayne and the Infanta had vndoubtedly borne the Crowne If Great Henry his Victorious sword had not pulld off Spaynes maske and so cutt her Title and its pretences in pieces Q. M. But see the equitie and Iustice of King Phillipe for when Henry that Heretique King came to the Crowne he restored him Calais Dourlans Valencienes Blauet and all other townes and Castles which he had formerly wonne and Conquered in France P. H. But all this was not worthy thankes for Phillipe alone restored that which hee could not nor dared not to Keepe Q. M. Nay obserue farther how religious King Phillip was in imitation of King Agesilaus for hee kept his Fayth inuiolable towards Henry IIII although he were an heretique King P. H. Nay obserue how irreligiously and treacherous Kinge Phillip was to King Henry 4. in imitation of Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes for hee violated his fayth and Friendship towards him in debaushing of Biron Mirargues Loste whose promises and gold made them Traytors to their King and Country E. 6. Surelie I thinke it is incydent and I feare it will proue hereditary to the Kings of Spayne to conquer more by treachery then by the sword Q. E. But had Great Henry liued he would haue requited these courses of Spayne as also that of Guignard and Chastell who although the report runne otherwise had their greatest light and encouragement from beyond the Pyreene mountaines for to speake truth hee in heart could neuer be drawen to loue Spayne P. H. Yea that Spayne knew full well for when the French Iesuites his Ministers had vnlocked the mistery they like bloody Schoole-masters soe diuelishlie instructed and fortified that monster of men Rauilliack their execrable and damnable desciple that hee soone sent him hither in a bloody Coffin Q.M. But you will not say that the King of Spayne was accessary to Henry 4. his murther P. H. No but I will say that if the truth were knowne the opening of that veine would make many great Birds yea and many learned ones too bleede themselues to death and peraduenture the wounds and scarres thereof would bleede an hundred yeares hence Q. A. The Marshall of Lauerdin whistered mee a word concerning this which I shall neuer forget onely hee requested my secrecie therein so the King of Spaines Larma and the Queene Mother of France her D' Anchre his Mariana and her Cotton shall giue me leaue to thinke Q. M. Questionlesse it were the sinnes of that King and the finger of Heauen that cut off the threed of his life Q. E. Questionlesse you are deceiued Sister for it were the sinnes of France who made the Knife and the treasons of Spaine and Rome which made that Parricide Rauilliack performe H. 8. Well in despight of Rome Spaine and Hell that victorious and glorious King is wasted hither in triumph therefore leaue wee him with God and God with him and let vs see since his deplorable death how kinde K. Philip of Spayne hath beene to King Lewes his Sonne Q. M. So kinde that hee hath matched King Lewis to his eldest Daughter the Ifanta Anna and his eldest Sonne Prince Phil. to the Eldest Princesse of France Madame Elizabeth that now these two mighty Kingdomes and Houses seeme to bee but one Q. E. This is faire to the eye of the world but it will bee excellent if the End of these matches proue fortunate for France H. 8. Who were the Match-makers P. H. S. P. Q. S. or to bee better vnderstood Spaine Pope and Queene Regent Q.E. If King Philip of Spaine be Heyre as well to his Fathers Ambition as to his Kingdomes hee will loue France so well as to push and fish for it P. H. What force could never effect hee hopes those Marriages now will E. 6. Indeede the Snake lurkes vnder the fairest greene leaues and the Aspik vnder the purest and sweetest Roses Q. E. No Kings of the world know better how to dissemble then the Catholique Kings P. H. You speake Scripture not tradition Q.M. And you Tradition not Scripture H. 8. But what intertainment had the Infanta of Spaine in France P. H Noble Royall Glorious E. 6. What traine of Spaniards brought shee with her into France P. H. A very great traine for Monsieur de Marais the French Embassadour with the King my Father told mee that Monsieur de Bonelle Master of the Ceremonies to the French King reported that when the first of them were entring Paris at St. Iaques Gate that the last were but comming downe the Pyrene Mountaines Q. A. But what did all this rabble of Spaniards doe in France P. H. To speake truth they fell presently to skrewing and working themselues into the State by begging and buying of Offices Places Pensions and gouernments both in Church and Common-weale and by making Pensioners for Spaine and consequently a bridge and passage for the King their Master to enter H. 8. But how did the Parliaments the Privie Councell and the Nobilitie of France brooke and digest this Q E. Yea that is a question of State indeed P. H. As for the Parliaments and Privie Councell many of them are so Iesuitiz'd as they are Spaniards in heart though French in tongue and therefore they were so farre from preuenting as they gaue way to it onely for the Princes and Nobilitie some few excepted they resembling themselues vowed and swore that their swords should cut the Pens and Tongues in pieces of any Spaniard whatsoever that dar'd propose or attempt it for they spake aloud and affirm'd the Florentines had taught them wit E. 6. A braue resolution of the French Nobilitie for the greatest of a State haue alwayes the greatest interest in the State those Princes and Nobles are therefore highly to be applauded and praised and such of the Privie Councell and Parliament who tacitely are delinquents and traytors to their Prince and Countrey deserue to bee found out arraigned and sacrificed to the good of the Common-weale either with a sword or a halter Q. M. But what said the Clergie of France to
needs bee made a Province to Spaine for they both haue consulted and finde that what could not be effected during the Reigne of old Henrie may in these of young King Lewes his Sonne P. H. It is not impossible rather likely for France abounds in a monstrous height of Pride and Sinne And the old Cleargie of France admit of so many new orders of Fryers and Nuns that almost all is out of order and the seuenteene Millions which the Duke of Suilly left by accompt to the Queene Regent is all long since spent and twice seventeene more So as although the Polleta be still on foote Monopolyes never so rife the Finnances or Exchequer drawne dry and exhausted yet the King is extreamely in debt to his Nobilitie and Pensioners and is not this Musicke for the King of Spaine H. 8. Had Great Henry liued he would haue remedied and preuented these calamities Q. A. But his Sonne King Lewes is not so happie to doe it no nor his Creator the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and councell him therevnto P. H. The neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent it and peradventure the Kingdome too for alreadie the Commons grieue hereat and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France need not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infectious Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it need not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewes dearely Q. A. Not halfe so well as he loues his Kingdome of France Q. E. In truth France hath reason to haue a vigilant eye ore Spaine for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drumme Trumpet and Cannon P. H. O no not as yet for if the King of Spaine were so ill aduised his Councell is not for they like old experienced Foxes will never permit him to discover himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and sword vntill the Sunne hath attaynd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was never greatly skild in the Mathematickes and yet consuming my Youth Yeares and Cares for England I haue reason to vnderstand his knowledge Wherefore Sister sith he is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mystery to reveale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse he was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall Melodie E. 6. But his Heresie hath brought him hether to Heaven tho and he is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now we are all resolved to heare you Q. E. I gaue him my Fathers name and he inheriteth my resolution and courage and the King his Fathers wisedome therefore he can neither flatter nor dissemble Q. A. Speake on Henry P. H. Know all men by these Presents that if Spaine did see the Heart and Bowels of France weltring in its bloud and flaming in the fire of an intestine Civill-warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these riffeling of the Lovare and of Paris and his Maiestie beseiging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Saumury or denouncing Warre to all those of that Religion If it did see sixteene Parisian Tribunes carrying away the Court of Parliament prisoners to the Bastille and Chastellets the rebellious Barycadoes and a bloudie Massacre in Paris and generally in all the Cities of the Kingdome if hee did see some Princes of the bloud or two great Dukes as were Du Mayene and Merury Captivating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Cleargie and Commons and covering their pernitious Designes and trecherous attempts vnder the Cloake of the holy League If it did see Calais Dourlaus Amiens Montdidier Valencienes Blauet and Croyden or other strong Cities or Forts of France bearing out the redd ragged Crosse in stead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Lovare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that he would vse him as King Phillip the second had an eager desire and had almost done great Henry his Father Q. M. Why how was that P. H. Right as my God-mother Queene Elizabeth hath formerly told you nothing but to depriue him of his Kingdome E. 6. It were better that all the Iesuites were hanged and the young Queene of France sent home to Spaine with her Portion to the King her Father Q. E. But wee see strange alterations in the Court of France for some dare but will not and others would but dare not informe the King hereof Q. A. France hath reason yea it it high time for her to looke to her selfe for the Agents Iesuits and double Pistols of Spaine are busie and their Swords and Pikes are not Idle For whiles France playes the Theorie Spaine playes the Practique Of the Netherlands H. 8. How doth Spaine and the Netherlands agree E. 6. Spaine hath so long invred and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Mariners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow t is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Philip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Philip the third beganne it or that he cannot reduce them to obedience by ending these warres with more fortunacie and lesse danger and dammage Q. E. Nay Sister it is pittie that these two Kings of Spaine and the Archduke Albertus and Isabella haue from time to time beene so ambitious inhumane cruell and revengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of blood in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyranny and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this fortie yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theatre of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue Souldiers and renowned Captaines slaine then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this blood is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Provinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trechery as Hostillitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orenge their Lieutenant Generall and father to Maurice that valiant and incomparable Captaine who now succeeds him in his Principalitie Q. M. O Sister cast not so base an aspersion on King Philip my Husband to affirme he was accessary to the
Woolsey and Gardyner and leaue out the Parliament for you onely proposed it them but for forme and had secretly concluded it before hand your selfe Q. M. Suppose I did I might doe it of mine owne authoritie and prerogatiue Royall Q. E. But you offred no faire play to the Parliament though in asking their aduise when the Contracts were ready to be sealed Q. M. But I had reason to follow mine owne Iudgement not their Passions H. 8. Nay nay Daughter you contrariwise followed your own passion not their Iudgements so God gaue limits to Philips Ambition and your owne desires by making you forsake earth he England E. 6. But wise King Iames is opposite to my Sister Mary aswel in Religion as sexe and therfore I hope nay I assure my selfe he will first consult this match with his Parliament ere he conclude it with Spaine P. H. If the voice of the Parliament be free and not enforced I make no doubt but the Pope the King of Spaine Gondomar and all our Recusants will come short of their hopes for the match H. 8. Daughter what benefits proposed you to the Parliament by your match with Spaine Q. M. Strength Profit Honour which England King Iames and Prince Charles will likewise now find if the match hold E. 6. As for strength if England would know its selfe it need not expect or hope for any from Spaine for Spaines assistance hath alwayes proued fatall and ruinous to those who haue vsed it And if England would assume the ancient generositie of her Ancestors and forsake her new fangled pride and prodigalitie Wee know it is strong enough to beate Spaine and all his Kingdomes and Prouinces no way so weake to feare that Spaine should make England a Pâ—â—uince for it were farre safer for England and Englishmen if they wore worse cloathes and had better hearts and swords and if they were more martiall and lesse effeminate Q. E. For Profit what Indies are richer then England For if England want money her selfe is still more powerfull and capable to inrich it selfe if it would be lesse vaine and more frugall and industrious c. What is a fewe hundred thousand pounds to England if England be thereby exposed to the danger of Spaine or that it be againe fetcht from them by the Bye as it was brought in by the Mayne for was profit ever cheape when it was bought with losse and repentance with teares and bloud or shall not euery Ducket be weighed and counterpoised downe with a farre greater preiudice and inconueniency for if the Match hold will not our Recusants looke a-loofe will not Spaniards be so ambitiously insolent to attempt to out-looke English will not the Pope steale in by degrees and the King of Spaine breake in either like a Torrent or a Thunderbolt when his Factors and Agents haue made all things ripe and in a readinesse will this be Englands profit P. H. For Honour England and Scotland were free Royall and ancient Monarchies when indeed Spaine was not Spaine but dis-ioynted and dissevered Provinces yea for Pompe State and Glory our Princes were Kings when their Kinges were scarce Princes nor their Princes Nobles Therefore GREAT BRITAINE by the Match can conferre and adde honour to Spaine but not Spaine to GREAT BRITTAINE Q. A. I could neuer yet affect the Match of Spaine for either of the two Princes my Sonnes for the Spaniard is by nature as trecherous as proud and although Northampton perswaded me thereto yet I loued true-hearted Salisbury who alwayes diuerted me from it as in the depth of his Allegiance and the profunditie of his wisedome Iudgement well fore-seeing they would proue fatall and ruinous to England E. 6. It is strange to see with what insatiable desire and Ambition Spaine couets England for he hath alreadie attempted it by treachery by force and now by the Match of his Daughter the Infanta to Prince Charles Q. M. You meane King Philip the 2. and not this present King Philip the 3 And as Don Iuan de Taris the Ambassadour of Spaine told King Iames at his first comming to the Crowne of England that the Ambition and malice of Spaine to England dyed with that Prince and was interred and buryed with him Q. E. But was this King Philip the third and his Councell neuer acquainted with that horrible Gunpowder Treason whereby it was intended and resolued that England should haue beene blowne vp ouerthrowne and ruined in a moment Q. M. O no he is too Catholike a King to haue hearkened much lesse to haue approued that Passionate plot Q. E. You might haue said that execrable and damnable plot of treason but that you will still seeke to diminish and extenuate Rome and Spaines Treasons Q. M. You infinitely wrong the Pope and King of Spaine to suspect much lesse to beleeue that they were acquainted with that Powder-plot Q. E. No went not Faulkes that hellish Incendary once to Rome about it and the younger Winter twice to Vallidolide Q. M. Yea about some other businesse it may be although I must confesse it was very immediately before that Treason was discouered P. H. Gondomar told me that both the Pope and King of Spaine abhord that Treason Q. A. I feare they abhord it for griefe it tooke not effect Q. M. If euer this King Philip hated England yee may be sure now he loues it for else he would neuer seeke to match his Daughter to it Q. E. What force and trechery cannot effect now affection in the match shall Wherein King Philip is of Lysanders minde who when the Lyons skinne will not serue he will sowe on a peece of the Foxes tayle E. 6. So he come into England he cares not by which way he ariue P. H. So the Daughter come not into England England neede not feare the comming of the Father Q. M. Count Gondomar will beate his head and his horse shoes but he will bring in the Daughter and already his hopes the probabilities are great for hee is exceeding great and familiar with King Iames. Q. E. Else he could neuer haue gotten open the Prisons-doores for the Romane Priests and Iesuites P. H. Nor haue made Rauleighs head to caper beyond his body Q. A. Nor haue kept backe an Armie from my Sonne and Daughter the King and Queene of Bohemia when so many hundred thousand valiant English Souldiers desired and longed to haue serued them in their warres Q. E. Nor haue shipt away so great a quantitie of Ordnance for Spaine which one of these dayes will returne Bullets to our hearts E. 6. Nor haue procured a gallant Fleete to secure the coast of Spaine against the Turkish Pyrates vnder coulour of going to Argier and Barbary P. H. That Fleete was fitter to haue gone to Mexico Q. A. So indeed it might haue returned with glory and Gold whereas now I feare it will with losse and repentance I will not say with shame Q. E. I know by Experience it is
to be a child therefore he is Confident and sure that the Match will hold but withall he saith the Parliament must be ended ere these royall Nuptiall Ceremonies can begin and so I thinke to E. 6. Indeede this Castillian Embassadour now sailes before winde and tyde vnder fore-sayle and maine-top-sayle but very shortly hee hopes to hoyst vp top and top-gallant P.H. he may chance to packe on so much sayle that hee may at last cracke the maine Mast of his Policie or the maine stay of his hopes or bee so busie and violent in the solicitation of this Match as hee himselfe may giue himselfe a Shot which may sinke either his reputation or iudgement or both betwixt winde and water Q. E. Intruth I found his Predicessor Mendoza too busie and dangerous in my State and therefore I forbad him my presence and discharged him my Kingdome whereat I know not whether he or the King his Master more grieued or my Councell and my Countrey reioyced Q. A. Gondomare hath had time enough to know my Husband King Iames but it seemes King Iames hath not yet enough deepely pryed into Gondamare In a word I know his Maiesty hath heard his tongue but not seene his heart much lesse the designes and resolutions of the King and Councell of Spaine which are inuelloped and hood-winked vnder the Mysterie of this Match H. 8. Indeede I haue read that Philip K. of Macedon went neere to haue betraid Arisba K. of Molosses of his kingdome vnder treating a Match with him Q. M. O but that Philip of Macedon was a Heathen King and this Philip 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 Inquisition of Spaine like to match their Infanta to an Hereticke Prince for so I know they terme my Noble Nephew Prince Charles P. H. Why Digbye could haue resolved you of that long since for he knowes that the sacred and reverend Inquisition of Spaine loues England but not the Match our Country but not our Religion and People and yet in hope to root out Heretickes 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 Match 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 Hand-maides to wait and attend on the State E. 6. But his Maiestie should doe farre better to defend the Faith whereof hee is the Defender and therein the State which professeth the true and sincere Religion of Christ and his Apostles sith Pietie is the preserver 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 wee shall finde none in your heart for pray what places haue you of divine 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 alledge any one to oppose and contradict it H. 8. Yes I produce Gen. Ch. 24. Ch. 26. 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 King Ch. 11. Ch. 16. Q. A. And I Ezra Ch. 9. Nehem. Ch. 13. Q. M. Well whatsoever 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 prooue it so if in time it be not remedied and prevented which God of his mercie grant for 't is true all the wheeles of Gondomars Art and Invention 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 he 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 he wisheth England were his aboue all the Countries of the World and his Catholique Maiestie is very confident that this Match will giue a mayne stroke to the busines Q. E. If he once haue England he will presently assume the Title of Emperour of the West as King Philip his Father was resolved to doe a little before his death yea his Ambition was so violent as he missing of England would haue proclaimed himselfe Emperour of Spaine and had not his Councell diverted and prevented him he would haue sayled to Mexico and there invested and intituled himselfe Emperour of America P. H. And I haue heard that Gondomar hath given the King of Spaine his Master good hope of England for 't is certaine that hee not long since wrote to the Dukes of 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 Melvine bridge to the Capitoll in Triumph who were outwardly glorious but within fill'd onely with straw and poore combustible stuffe E. 6. Indeed it is the shame weaknes of England that Spaine is no better acquainted with its strength 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 afflictions 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 beene 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 therfore I hope my sonne Charles will not consent to match with 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
Sonne yet he 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 he 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 shee may proue a false and vnsecret Secretary to the Prince her Husband and a dangerous Princesse to the State for he giuing her his heart his Highnesse can hardly reserue any corner thereof for himselfe P. H. Yea then every Spanish Traytor and English Rebell will shroud themselues vnder the authority and greatnesse 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 peradventure 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 is gone for euer Q. E. And then shall Englands strong men fall vpon the edge of the Sword her Virgins bee defloured and murthered her Wiues defiled and slaine in sight of their dying Husbands and their Children young Babes shall haue their braines dashed against the wals in sight of their dead Parents P. H. Yea then shall our Nobility and Gentry dye vpon the swords of those Barbarous Castillians and those who escape and suruiue their fury shall bee fettered and led Captiues and slaues to worke in the Mines of Peru and Mexico E. 6. Then shall our Priestes who are now cloathed in the white robes of Righteousnesse bee drowned in those of their owne scarlet blood No Church no Temple no Preaching no Sacraments but all couered with the thick fogges of Romes superstitious Idolatries and Egyptian darknes Q.A. Yea then the King my Husband the Prince my Sonne my excellent Daughter the Queene of Bohemia her Princely Posterity and if Spaine possibly can all Great Brittaines blood Royall shall be rooted out and exterminated as if they neuer had beene or at least no remembrance left of them or of the name of Great Brittaine Q. M. This were musicke indeed for Rome and Spaine to dance at and for Gondomar to laugh himselfe to death for ioy Q. E. But I hope God of his mercy will confound all those who wish or desire it whether it be Gondomar the Iesuits Englands Recusants Spaine the Pope or the Divell The Conclusion of the Consultation H. 8. But heere let vs make a stand and shut vp our Consultation and sith so many millions of imminent dangers desolations and miseries attend and hang over the head of England by this Match of Spaine let vs goe to suffrages and Votes that plurality may giue sentence whether it shall bee a Match yea or no for what wee conclude I make no doubt but our great God with his owne voyce will ratifie and confirme H. 8. Q. M. Whereunto we all consent and agree E. 6. Q. E. Whereunto we all consent and agree P. H. Q. A. Whereunto we all consent and agree H. 8. I am against the Match E. 6. I am against the Match P. H. I am against the Match Q. M. I am for the Match Q. E. I am against the Match Q. A. I am against the Match H. 8. Daughter Mary wee are fiue against you one therefore the Match of England and Spaine hath end ere beginning and is absolutely cast without reuocation And now let vs breâ—ke vp our Consultation and againe repayre to the Throne of the Lambe of our sacred God both of Heaven and Earth to acquaint his Diuine Maiestie with all the particulars thereof and therein to receiue his Heauenly pleasure and Commaund When the Angell opening Heauens Starre-chamber a great concourse and afluence of Saints and Angels singing most Diuinely conduct them to the Blessed Tribunall where the whole newes of their Consultation being already arriued to the vnderstanding of the Almightie It pleased his Diuine and Coelestiall Maiestie to call foorth Queene Mary whom he sharpely reproues checks in loving Spaine to be so vnnaturall to hate her natiue Countrey of England Then he infinitly Disproues the Match of Prince Charles with the Infanta of Spaine as derogating from his Diuine Glory and Englands safetie and prosperitie and so to Conclude very joyfully cheerefully approues of their Consultation which for the more grace and authoritie he makes and reputes as his owne When Commanding these three Princes two Queenes for Queene Mary was now put by and excluded to send vnto England by its owne Tutulary Angell foure seueral printed Copies of this their Consultation The first to be deliuered to King Iames the second to Prince Charles his Sonne the third to the High Court of Parliament and the fourth to the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Priuy Counsel the which in his Sacred presence was speedily performed and effected When a great shout of Ioy and an Vniuersall plauditie being hereunto giuen by all the Angels and Host of Heaven These fiue Royall Personages againe followed the Lambe CHRIST IESVS where he went This Consultation thus ended Queene Mary biting the lippe at her checke and Disgrace and grieuing to see the Match of the Infanta with Prince Charles thus vnexpected dash'd and consequently the Pope frustrated of his hopes and the King of Spaine of his Ambitious desires Shee cals Mercury to her and withall possible speed sends him away likewise to England with these two ensuing Letters which shee had written the one to Count Gondomar the other to all the Romane Catholikes of England Queene Mary To Count Gondomar Ambassadour for Philip the III. King of Spaine resident with IAMES King of Great BRITTAINE YOur Excellencie may vnderstand that I haue dispatch'd Mercurie to you in England to aduertise you of a ConsultatioÌ„ held here in Heaven by my Father King Henry VIII my Brother King Edward VI. my Sister Queene Elizabeth Queene Anne Prince Henry and my selfe concerning your Masters pretences and hopes of England by the Match of the Infanta his Daughter with Prince Charles which al the other fiue haue opposed as preiudiciall Dangerous and my selfe maintayned as profitable and Honourable for England For louing Philip the Father I must wil euer Honour Philip his son They haue likewise ript vp vnmasked Spaines former Ambition Crueltie and Treacherie aswell towards England as other Kingdomes and States of Europe the discouery and relation whereof I could neuer silence nor prevent your Excellencie must giue me leaue to signifie that I feare your Secretaries are not so honest as your self Politike For you are hereby these Princes brought on the Stage in your naked and naturall Colours therefore I could wish you to be more modest and not so busie Only to the vtmost of your mortall power knit the knot of this Match for if it holde the heart of England will be soone broken or if the coÌ„trary it wil infalliably breake the necke of the King
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K. of Molosses p 71. l. 13. for his Catholique r. his Catholique Maiestie p. 74. l. 5. for selfe for Ioy read selfe to Death for ioy Vox Coeli The Introduction HEauen beeing Gods Throne and Earth his Footstoole it is impossible any thing can bee here spoken and acted but wil there be heard revealed and detected for not onely our hearts but our thoughts not only our tongues but our intents lye open and are obvious transparent to the glorious and relucent eyes of Gods most sacred Maiestie who being the sole Architector preseruer both of Heauen and Earth rules that by his presence this by his providence and both by his power and that we Men are not by many thousand degrees so great in his eyes as the smallest Pysmires are in ours who lookes still on our Designes and Actions sometimes with approbation now with pitie then with contempt and anon with Choller Indignation being himselfe the prime Presydent the great Moderator the mightie Councellor the eternall and euerlasting Jehovah who can and will giue Lawes to all the Kings and Princes of the earth as they doe to their subjects by their subordinate and yet transcendent power drawn from his most sacred Majestie of Heaven as the Starres who actually deriue their light borrow their lustre from the refulgent beames and glorious bodie of the Sun And as this great God seated in his Coelestiall throne of Glory with his all-seeing and sacred eyes beholds in Heaven the thoughts and actions of men heer on earth so likewise out of his indulgent mercy and prouidence he likewise giues the same authority and power to his Angels Saincts and Martyrs to do the like who clad in white Robes the Ornaments of sanctitie and puritie with Palme branches in their hands the Emblems of Peace and Ioy and Crownes and Coronets on their heads the rewards and marks of Glory Follow the Lamb Christ Iesus wheresoever he goe still singing these joyful Io Peans and Epithalamians of Haleluiah and Glory be to God on High Peace on Earth and good will towards men By vertue of which Deuine priuiledges the maske of Spaines boundlesse Ambition being discouered pulled off in supporting the Pope seeking the encrease of his spirituall Iurisdiction whereby his Holinesse in Exchange may enlarge that of Spaines temporall Monarchy so as that shall haue feet to goe and these wings to flie to the height of earthly greatnesse whereby the Catholike Kings ayme out of the ruines of Rome and Germany to erect another Empire in the West and endeauour by degrees to make most of the Kingdomes and Free Estates of Europe become Provinces unto Spaine as some by force some by policie some by treachery and now England by the Match of the Infanta his Daughter with our most Illustrious and Royall Prince Charles next to his Royall Father King Iames our most Dread Soueraigne the hope of Englands life and the life of its Ioy and hope I say the newes of these projects and resolutions of Spaine hauing with as much fortunary as celeritie passed the Clouds and pierced the vaults and windowes of Heaven it fast arriued there to the vnderstanding of that immortall maiden Queen Elizebeth whose heart ever loued England as her soule did Heaven and of whose flourishing welfare and prosperity I cannot truly averre whether she still remayne more jealous or ambitious Whereat grieuing with as much disdaine as she disdained with griefe knowing that her Nephew and God-sonne Prince Henry participated and burned in her zeale that the insatiable and bloud-thirsty Ambition of Spaine might not erect his Trophees vpon the Tombe of Englands downfall and the ruines of her subversion she speedily acquaints him with it whom although Heaven had purified and devested of his Earthly passions yet such was this young Prince his never dying zeale to Englands ever living Glory that his Highness could not refraine from looking red with anger and pale with feare at the report knowledge thereof They consult hereon and hold it both expedient and necessary to acquaint other English Princes herewith especially those whom they knew stood deeply and sincerely affected to England So Prince Henry acquaints his Mother Queen Anne herewith Queen Elizabeth her Brother King Edward 6. and both they their Father King Henry 8. who so upon advise hereof could not refraine to looke on England with the eyes of affection and pitie and on Spaine with those of indignation and contempt So these fiue great Princes and Queens prepare themselues to Consult on this most important busines when loe they are suddenly met and assayled with a doubt of no mean consequence and consideration viz. Whether or no they should admit and receiue Queen Mary into this their Consultation whom not her Roman merits but the praiers of the Protestants had brought to Heauen When at first they considring that in heart soule she alwaies loved and preferred Rome and Spaine before England they resolved to exclude her but at last upon riper and more mature deliberation considering that she knew many secrets of Spaine whereof peradventure they were ignorant as also that from her innate inveterate malice to England she might either in jest or earnest bewray somthing that might turne and redound to the good of England they all consented she should bee advertised hereof and so admitted which was instantly performed and as the rest of these Royall Princes envied Spaines ambition and pitied Englands dangers So to speak the truth and no more Queen Mary still resembling herselfe both in her speeches and lookes testified the contrary Vowing that as she loued Philip the II. the Father so shee would still honour Philip the III. his Sonne Thus these three Princes and three Queenes not daring to consult in Heaven on any thing without permission of the Superiour powers they all reprayre to the sacred throne of the Lambe of that Great Maker and conducter of Heaven and earth whose Tribunall is environed with more sparkling and bvrning Sunnes then we see Starres in the Firmament and who is waited and atended on by many millons and Maryades of Angels Where in signe of Gods glory and their humilitie these Royall personages fall on their faces to his blessed feet and so proffer vp their Petition to his heauenly Majestie to haue authority and place given them to Consult on this important businesse betwixt England and Spaine There petition read and considered God out of the profunditie of his immense affection and favour towards the prosperity of England Wherein for the space of well neere One hundred yeares his Sacred Maiestie hath seen himselfe truely served and glorified ratifies their request and approues and authoriseth their sitting When departing from Gods most sacred throne they were by a full Quire of Angels with Trumpets Tymbrels in their hands vshered into the golden Star-chamber of Heaven which was purposely prepared for them when taking their severall seates the doore shut and guarded by
murther of William Prince of Orenge much lesse authorised or commanded it P. H. All the Ocean betweene Holland and Spaine cannot wash off that Murther from your Husband King Philip for his proscription to murther him beares it and his Lieutenant the Duke of Parma commanded the Count Assonuille to deale with Gerrard about this murther who promised him twenty-fiue thousand Crownes to effect it which O griefe to speake it he did E. 6. But his valiant Sonne hath long since had revenge for the death of his Father Q. A. If he haue not he resolues to haue it H. 8. But hath not Spaine since attempted or broached any other Treason towardes the Hollanders P. H. O yes very lately for whilst Spaine is Spaine Holland will never forget how neere hee was to haue extinguished her libertie and surprized their State by infecting and corrupting their Secretary Barnevelt a man of so profound wit and deepe iudgement and experience in matters of State as he was not onely the Oracle of the Netherlands but the Ornament and Wonder of Europe yea of his time Q. E. See 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 mayne 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 Barnevelts necke he long ere this had assuredly broken the necke both of their libertie and State Q. M. Well Barnavelt is gone and now Spaine needs not feare his pollicie P. H. Nay Barnavelt being dead and Maurice that famous Prince of Orenge liuing Holland need not feare either the trechery or force of Spaine H. 8. But Nephew I heare that the Vnited Provinces 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 Silver of Spaine will prevaile against them and weigh them downe P. H. But the Hollanders had Ships enough of their owne and Gold Silver 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 resolved 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 Netherlands how easily might hee refetch backe Flushing the Brill and the Ramekins E. 6. Nay how easily did his Maiestie depart with them to the Netherlands P. H. It infinitely reioyceth mee 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 Father Q E. Heaven forbid it P. H. God defend it Q. M. Why 't is but one for another for hee knowing Barnauelt a Traitor to his Countrey 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 Spayne either poyson or pistoll the Prince of Orenge 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 Holines Q. A. It were good then for Holland to bee carefull of their Prince of Orenge his life as all the World knowes his Excellencie is of their safetie and preseruations P. H. And it will likewise behoue them to obserue withall as I hope they doe how subtilly and trecherously Spinola takes their neighbour Townes for the Emperour and keeps 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 needefull for Spaine to haue a speciall care of his West-Indies from the Holland Fleets H. 8. Wherefore onely Spaines West-Indies or rather why not all the Worlds West-Indies sith their red and white earth sets all the World on fire and in Combustion Q. A. 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 onely prop of Spaine which if once found out and taken away from them will quickly make the greatnesse of his Ambition and Empire to totter P. H. Till when all other Kingdomes and Estates of Christendome may thinke themselues exempt from Spaines feare but shall never bee from his danger Q. E. This Holland perfectly and apparantly knowes and it were a great happinesse for the rest of Europe if they would heerein imitate their Generosity 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 wherfore let vs see Spaines Ambition and Enuie 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 Spaines 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
grieue for the Fleete Q. E. And I lament it E. 6. And I pittie it Q. A. And I bewaile it Q. M. And not to dissemble both Gondomar King Philip his Master the Pope my selfe and all the Romane Catholiques of England reioyce hereat for the Impotency and destruction of this Royall Nauy is the Harbinger to prepare the way and a step for King Philip to mount the Throne of Estate to plucke off King Iames his Crowne and to place and settle it on his owne head Q. E. O my Ships my Ships God knowes they were still deere to me because still necessary to England Where is my Drake where my Cumberland my Forbisher my Grinuille my Cauendish my Hawkins my Rauleigh and the rest Alas they want me and King Iames and England wants them for when they liued and I raigned our Valour could stop the Progression of Spaine Yea my Ships domineerd in his Seas and Ports and their Clouds of smoke and fire with their Peales of Thunder strooke such amazement to the hearts and terrour to the courages of Castille and her faint-hearted Castillians that every Spanish Bird kept his owne Nest not powerfull enough to defend themselues much lesse to offend any and least of all England who was then in her Triumphes in her lustre in her glory P. H. Grieue no more deere Aunt for the Nauy Royall of England for although Nottingham were remisse and carelesse herein yet braue Buckingham hath of late yeares set a new face on that Fleet and makes it not onely his delight but his glory to re-edifie and reforme them yea there is not a yeare passes him but he brings some new forth from their Dockes and puts in other olde although Cranfield resembling himselfe byte his lippes at the Charge thereof because he affirmes he hath other occasions to disburse and pay away the Kings Treasure Q. E. Nephew Wales I am glad to heare that Buckingham is so carefull of Englands Fleet-Royall and in very deed his Ambition Care and Zeale herein will infallibly purchase him much loue and honour of the whole Kingdome especially if he continue it H. 8. Me thinkes Scotland annexed and vnited to England should make it farre the stronger Q. E. But how can King Iames say England and Scotland is strong when he feares the power of Spaine and will not know or beleeue his owne E. 6. Yea it were much honour to the King and happinesse to his Kingdome and Subiects if in any poynt knowing the weaknesse thereof he would fortifie and reforme it Q. A. And it were a great happinesse for most Kingdomes and free Estates of Europe if they would follow the Examples of the Venetians and Hollanders who will neither trust nor loue much lesse feare Spaine P. H. And among the rest if England would follow it they should draw securitie out of danger whereas now her apparant danger is drawne and deriued from her apparant securitie Q. A. O that the King my Husband would thinke hereof P. H. O that the King my Father would make vse hereof Q E. O that King Iames my Heyre and Successor would not hearken or beleeue the contrary hereof H. 8. But this were the way to haue Warres with Spaine and King Iames I vnderstand is resolued to liue and dye in peace with them Q. M. Warre cannot be bought at a cheape rate Q. E. But it is pittie that peace should be bought at too deare and dishonourable a rate P. H. I haue alwayes beene informed that England still gets by her Warres with Spaine Q. E. I got by my Warres with Spaine and Spaine lost by it P. H. My Father and his Subiects lose by his Peace with Spaine and Spaine gets by it Q. M. When England hath lost her selfe shee can lose no more Q. E. But Sister your death was the death of the Popes hopes and of Spaines pretences to England P. H. But they both seeme to reviue and bud forth afresh if the Match betweene my noble Brother P. Charles and the Infanta of Spaine take effect Q. A. May Heauen deny the first and the King your Father never consent to the second Q. E. So shall Spaine euer feare England but neuer England Spaine Q. M. But I hope the contrary for in these dayes the King of Spaines Gold and his Embassadour Count Gondomar act wonders in England H. 8. Hath Gondomar propounded this match to King Iames P. H. O long since and he hath vowed to weare out his red leather Coach and greene buckeram Litter but he will see an end of it this Parliament Q. A. I thought indeede it was not for nothing that he makes Aesops Fables his daily pocket guest E. 6. How doth King Iames relish this match Q. M. His Exchequer is poore and King Philips Indies riches and therefore his Maiestie likes it so well as he will hearken to no other H. 8. How doth Prince Charles himselfe like this motion P. H. I know not how my Brother likes it but for my part I should ever haue preferred a Daughter of France to that of Spaine and I hope the match will not succeed because my Noble Brother Prince Charles is wise valiant and generous E. 6. But how doth the braue and graue Parliament savour this Spanish match Q. A. Few loue it most feare it But as the match so the Parliament is not yet ended Q. E. This would be Musicke indeede for the Romane Catholikes of England if it should take effect for the very first newes thereof made them flappe their wings as if they were readie to crowe Q. M. Yea for they hope and which is more they know that if it proue a match That the Infanta will soone introduce the Masse and Vsher in the Pope therefore they haue reason to reioyce at it P. H. But if the King of Spaine will not giue the summe which my Father King Iames demands will not they make it vp Q. E. It is probable and credible That their Holy Father the Pope and themselues will stretch both their purses and credits to knit the match H. 8. Why hath Gondomar such power with King Iames to hope to see this match effected Q. M. O yes for his Maiestie saith that his Master is an honest King and he a wise Servant The first all the world knowes and the second I hope England shall shortly feele at least if all hookes take P. H. Indeed if Gondomar can effect this match it is the direct way for him to be a Grande of Spaine and to procure a red Hat for his Sonne or Nephew Q. A. Was the Duke of Monteleone so rewarded for his French matches Q. M. He is alreadie a Grande of Spaine and hath the promise of a Haâ— Q. A. Why then Count Gondomar need not feare for he hath as much policie as the Duke of Monteleone though not so much ostentation H. 8. Who made and concluded the match with King Philip Q. M. My selfe and the Parliament Q. E. Nay Sister put in