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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

Father left 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 subuertion of the Netherlands who to the eye if the world and to humaine iudgement must shortly sinke 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 necessity And wherevnto tends all this treacherous ambition and formidable vsurpation and greatnes of the King of Spaine but to cut out a passage with his sword and to make his troopes Regiments fly o're the Alpes for his erecting and obtaining of the Westerne Empire And wherevnto tends it I say but to make his territories and Dominions to encirculiz●… 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 genero●…s Sirs it this all the malice and treacherie which Spaine hath offered towards England O no nothing lesse for vpon that Iournie which was as dangerous as suddaine of our Prince into Spaine then whome the world hath not a brauer Hath not the King of Spaine dealt treacherously with him about his match with the Infants his Sister yea haue they not in his Princely person violeted the Lawes of Hospitality and the priueledges of Princes when being vnder his owne roofe by attempting to tye him to formes which were dia●…etrally opposite to his honour yea to be so audatiously impudent as with much violency and virulency to seeke to put a rape vpon his Conscience and Religion and proffered inforcement of his Conuersion to Popery as if their Infanta had bin to him more pretious then his soule or that he had bin so wretchedly grounded and instructed in pietie that his Highnesse would haue forsaken his God purposely to haue obayed 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 further was it not a hellish pollicy and a diabolicall designe and resolution of the Counsell of Spaine to aduise our Prince vpon his returne into England to waerre vpon the Protestants and to proffer him an Army to suppresse and exterminate them The Prot●…stants I say who are those by whome our King his Father raingeth and without whom his Maiesty can neuer subsist nor raigne nor his Highnesse sucessi●…ely 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 euer forget this inueterate rage and infernall malice of Spaine against them as also the rest of their imperious and insulting cariage towards his Highnesse and towards Great Brittaine as if they priz'd i●… at so low a rate and made their boundlesse ambition so excessinely ouer-valew their owne Spaine that that were in the Crisis of her weakenesse and misery and this in the prime and verticall point of her power and glory And when his Highnesse pressed them for the restitution of the Pallatinate which they had often promised to the King his Father then they temporized so cunningly and subtillized so trecherously with him that euery day brought forth new delayes and difficulties till in the end they had made the cure worse then the disease and hauing taken firme footing therein were enforced to vnuaile and vnmask their dissimulation and faintly and coldly to affirme that they would treat with the Emperour for the restitution thereof but could not promise it Thus hauing abused first our King the Father and then our Prince the Sonne they haue now likewise betrayed and ruined our Princesse the Daughter in their finall Conquest and resolute detention of the Prince her Husbands Palatinate that Princesse I say whose Royall and sublime vertues make her the honour of her time the ornament of her sexe and the Phaenix Princesse of the world Whereunto adding the absolute breach of the Match long since prophetically delacerated and cast in Heauen by the Princely and Royall Authors of this Consultation and since the same breach here on Earth likewise so happily confirmed by the King as also by the Prince so all these premisses considered hath not England reason to hate Spaine in regard Spaine hates it especially because of these two maine ensuing points and important considerations First for that the King of Spaine is a greater and more professed Enemy to our sacred King and his Royall posteritie then either the Emperour or Duke of Baua●…ia and is 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 honourable for England As vpon New-yeares day last I made these two points apparant and manifest to the King in my Discourse intituled Votiuae Angliae which I sent his Maiestie in the behalfe and fauour of the Prince Palatine his Sonne in law for the restoration of his Palatinate Hauing thus with as much disdaine as griefe seene his inueterate malice towards great Brittaine towards our King and his Royall posteritie and consequently the eminent dauger whereinto our profound securitie hath throwne and 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 silent 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 inuincible Bulwarke of our King and his Royall Progeny and the inexpugnable Cittadel and Acrocorinth of our Estate To you I say the Conscript Fathers of our supreamest Senate doth it in dutie present it selfe and in humilitie prostrate it selfe which when your first leasure hath curiously read and your best zeale carefully and maturely considered Then by all that true English bloud which streameth in your heart and veynes by all the loue whic●… your Countrie beares you and by all the dutie 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 hee speedily second it with execution without which it will proue a vaine Fantasma and an abortiue Embrion

〈◊〉 the Duke of Luynes so discreet and honest to aduise and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereunto P. H. 〈◊〉 neglect thereof may make one or both of them to repent●…t and peraduenture the kingdome too for already the Commons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Nobilitie would but cannot remedy it Q. M. Spaine loues France therefore France neede not feare Spaine P. H. The Panthers skin is faire yet his friendship is fatall and his breath infections Q. E. Indeed if France loued not Spaine it neede not feare it Q. M. King Philip loues King Lewis 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 Spain for as long as shee sleepes in her bed of pleasure and securitie perhaps one of these dayes Spaines Ambition may awake her with Drum 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 neuer permit him to discouer himselfe much lesse his Resolutions and least of all his Ambition and Sword vntill the Sunne hath attain'd the Meridian Q. M. I know not what my Nephew meanes by this Mathematicall Riddle Q. E. I was neuer 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 hee is a Noble and famous Prince let vs heare him for he hath some mistery to reueale twixt France and Spaine Q. M. He loues France and hates Spaine and which is worse hee was an Heretique therefore his tongue can make no Spherall melody E. 6. But his heresie hath brought him hither to heauen tho and hee is a famous and Noble Prince therefore Cosen Wales speake on of France and Spaine for now wee are all resolued 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 Giuill warre if it did see the Princes banded against the King or the King against the Protestants these rifeling of the Lourre and of Paris and his Maiestie besieging of Rochell Sancerre Sedan Nismes or Samury 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 Merary Captiuating and Deboshing the obedience and affections of the French Nobilitie Clergie and Commons and couering 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 red ragged Crosse instead of the three yellow Flower Deluces and a second Mendoza for his Ambassadour sate as premier President and Oracle in the Louare Towne-house and Parliament That then Phillip the III. of Spaine loues his Sonne in Law Lewes the thirteene of France so well that hee 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 Godmother 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 is 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 ●…gree E. 6. Spaine hath so long inured and enforced the Hollanders to bloud and warres as now at Sea and Land they are become such braue Souldiers and Marriners as they feare not Spaine and to loue Spaniards they vow it is impossible much lesse to obey them Q. M. It is pittie that King Phillip the second ended not the chastising and Conquest of these Heretique Hollanders ere King Phillip the third began it or that hee 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 reuengefull to drowne the face of the Netherlands with many deluges of bloud in seeking to preserue their libertie liues and Consciences from the cruell Tyrannie and Inquisition of Spaine P. H. Indeed for this forty yeares the Netherlands hath beene the Schoole and Theater of Mars whereon there hath beene more braue souldiers and renowned Captaines flame then in any Country of the world or in many precedent Ages and yet all this bloud is not capable to quench Spaines Ambition and Tyranny in seeking to deuoure those Prouinces Q. A. Hath not Spaine assaulted the Netherlands as well by Trecherie as Hostilitie Q. E. Yes witnesse the damnable Villaine Gerrard who long since murthered William the famous Prince of Orange 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 Phillip my Husband to affirme hee was accessary to the murther of William Prince of Orange much lesse authorised it or commanded it P. H. All the Ocean betweene Holland and Spaine cannot wash off that Murther from your Husband King Phillip 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 twentie fiue thousand Crownes to effect it which O griefe to speake it he did E. 6. But his valiant Sonne hath long since had reuenge 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 towards the Hollanders P. H. O yes very lately for whilst Spaine is Spaine Holland will neuer forget how neere he was to haue extinguished her libertie and surprized their State by infecting and corrupting their Secretary Barneuelt a man of so profound wit and deepe iudgement and experience in matters of State as he was not onely

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

setled peace hee deuoured this rich and noble Kingdome making it not onely tributary but a Prouince to Spaine And was this also Religion or to plant the Catholique faith or rather was it not manifest treacherie and apparant vsurpation such if Don Anthony had not all the world knowes the Dutches of Braganca had more right to this Kingdome then King Philip. P. H. Yea that policy King Phil. learnt of the Emperour Charles 5. his Father who when himselfe and King Francis the first of France contended for the Empire of Germany whiles Francis was bribing of the Electors Charles brought an Armie into the field and so enforced them to elect and choose him Q. M. I must confesse I euer held the Portingalls to be zealous and good Romane Catholiques but as Nauarre lay fit for Biscay and Galicia so Portingall lay exceeding comodious for Andoulosie and if my husband King Philip had not seconded his right of descent by the law of his sword perhaps he might haue had a bad neighbor in Portingall which he and his counsell timely fore-seeing they as wisely preuented And howsoeuer although he hated Don Anthonie yet I know he loued the Dutches of Braganca well but When we speake of Crownes and kingdomes Religion will make his surprise of Portingall a matrer of State though to speake truth State can neuer make it a matter of Religion Q. A. How Well King Phillip loued the Dutches of Braganca I know not but this I am sure of that both Monsieur de Boysise Monsieur de Bissea●…x and Monsieur de Marais Ambassadours with King Iames my Husband for the two last French Kings Henry 4. and Lewes 13. tolde me that Philips hatred and rage was so great against Don Anthony that he begged his body which lyes in a Coffin of Lead in the Cord-liers Church at Paris to be deliuered his Ambassadours and so sent him into Spaine but as they said these two most Christian Kings their Masters answered Philip that there was little Religion lesse charity to take vp and remoue the ashes of a dead Prince and King as was Don Anthony and so his body still remeanes in Paris P. H. If Spaine were so malicious to a dead Prince how ought those that are liuing to beware and take heed of him H. 8. As a guilty conscience can neuer finde ●…est so it may be that King Philip was afraid of a second Don Anthony as of a second Sebastian P. H. But King Philip 3 his sonne hath farre more reason to feare Don Anthony his two Princely sonnes Don Emanuel and Don Christopher and of Don Emanuell his two generous and Illustrious Sonnes Don Maurice and Don Lewes all foure liuing who are fam●…os and Royall reserued Peeres of Shipwracke of that Royall Kingdome and blood of Portingall Q. M. O but they are poore and want friends and meanes to advance their iust title to that Crowne if they haue any E. 6. Their right and title to Portingall is iust and therefore cannot and should not dye Q. E. If the French forces had met mine at the Groyne Peneca or Lisbone or had the Portingals ●…isen my Norris Drake and noble Essex in despight of Philip and his forces had pluck'd the Crowne of Portingall from his head and set it on King Anthonies P. H. No no Don Anthonies Sonnes are beloued of the Nobilitie of England France and the Netherlands and Don Emanuels wife is Sister to that valiant and incomparable Captaine Maurice of Nassaw Prince of Orenge So if fortune smile and a fauourable gale blow these disinherited Portingall Princes may one day proue pricks and thornes to the sides of Spaine For all Portingall knowes that their veines and hearts streame with pure Portingall blood yea with the remainder of the royall blood of that Kingdome which Philip 3. his last entertainment together with the Prince his sonne at Lisbone had almost found true but that his Maiestie departed with as much feare secresie and shame as he came with resolution popularitie and glory in the interim these Portingall Princes remaine prodigious and ominious Commets to Spaine Q. M. Did Spaine thinke so it would quickly make these Princes ride Poast into another world Q. E. If Spaine should send these Princes Poast into another world either by the b●…cke doore of poyson by the wicket of a Ponyard and not by the great and fore-dore of Nature it would draw the fists of most Christian Prince about King Philips eares and make all Portingall solemnize their Funerals with their swords drawn and their Cities gates shut E. 6. Indeede I haue heard that the Commons and especially the Nobillitie of Portingall begin extreamly to distaste the imperious pride and ambitious carriage of the Spaniards as many of them let not to say boldly and publiquely that Phillip enioyes the Kingdome by vsurpation and n●…t by right Q. M. Not by right Why Pope Gregory 14. approued his Title and confirmed his Conquest of the Kingdome of Portingall Q. E. So did not our Sauiour Christ whose Successour and Vicar the Pope pretends himselfe to be P. H. In the meane time Spaine domineeres at her Conquest of Portingall and well shee may for it is one of the fairest flowers of his Garland and of the richest Diamonds of his Crowne H. 8 But the other Kings of Christendome haue ●…ust cause and reason to grieue and storme hereat for as it was Portingals mischance then to fall and vaile Bonnet to Spaine so it may be theirs to morrow for to a Prince and people so greedy and ambitions of Empire as is Spaine all fish is good that comes to his hooke or net P. H. Thus Spaine deuoures Kingdomes as the Cyclope Polephemus did passengers for he surprizeth no more then he meetes withall and yet will not Chirstendome beware of Spaine Italy H. 8. VVE haue past from Nauarre the West Indies Portingal now let vs come to Italy to see how Spain is beloued or feared of the Italians how he hath behaued himselfe there E. 6. In Italy the King of Spaine is nayled to the Pope as most of the Colledge of Cardinals and all die Iesuites are to him yea he hath the greatest and richest territories thereof as the Kingdome of Naples the Dutchy of Millane and the Island of Cicily and in a mannet the Marquesse of Monaco and Finall the Dukes of Montoua Parma and Vrbin the Princes of Massa and Piombino with the States of Genoua and Luca doe all march vnder his banner and call onely on his name yea he hath so incircled the Pope as hee is rather his Prisoner then his spirituall Father for if his Patrimony of St. Peter be the Temple his Naples and Millane is the Cloyster to impall it so as he hath no impeachment or obstacle from making himselfe sole Lord of Italy but the great Duke of Tuscany and the prudent and potent Seignorie of Uenice Q. M. O but the Pope neede not feare the King of Spaine for ●…s Spaine is the