the Pope had demanded if herewith this King could be satisfied your Maj. desire that we might proceed to a final and speedy conclusion otherwise that this King would likewise cleerly declare himself that your Majesty might lose no more time in the disposing of the Prince your son Hereunto the Conde de Olivarez answer'd with some length the substance I shall only presume to set down briefly to your Majesty He proposed a sincere intention and resolution in the King to make the Match and that there should not be one day lost for the speedy dispatch thereof imported them as much as your Majesty and to the end that no time may be lost this King had the next day after for Don Balthazar de Zuniga appointed Don Ferdinando de Giron in his place in the Commission That for the going of Mr. Gage from Rome and the Popes demands they were absolutely ignorant of them That the King had done all that I my self desired for the redress of this error That I might assure your Majesty that you shall find all sincerity and cleer proceeding without any houres delay more then of necessity the nature of the business required As for the business of the Palatinate I presented at large the merits of your Majesties proceeding the many promises made from hence yet notwithstanding the whilst your Majesty was treating at Bruxels Heidelberg one of the three places which were only left and where your Majesty had Garrisons was besieged by the Archduke Leopold and Monsieur Tilly that this King had withdrawn his Forces and so exposed the Palatinate absolutely to the Emperor and the Duke of Bavaria The Conde de Olivarez answered me by acknowledging how much your Majesties proceedings had deserved at the Emperor and this Kings hands That whatsoever your Majesty could expect or had been at any time promised should by this King be really performed That the Prince Palatines own courses hitherto had been the only hinderance of the effecting of it That he referred it unto your Majesties own just judgment whether the calling of this Kings forces out of the Palatinate were with any ill intention or meerly for the defence of Flanders which otherwise had been put in great hazard by Count Mansfield as your Majesty saw by what had really passed That the siege of Heidelbergh was no way by the consent or knowledge of this King or any of his Ministers but was generally disapproved by them all I told them I conceived that was not enough for that your Majesty had engaged your self to this King that in case your Son-in-law would not conform himself you would not only forsake him but would declare your self against him and give the Emperor assistance for the reducing of him to reason and that your Majesty could not but expect a like reciprocal proceeding from the King He answered your Majesty should see the Kings sincerity by the effects and that if Heidelbergh should be taken and the Emperor refuse to restore it or to condescend to such accommodation as should be held reasonable this King would infallibly assist your Majesty with his Forces And this he spake with great assurance and wished me to desire your Majesty to be confident you would find nothing but real and sinc ere proceedings from hence I was then presently called for to the King to whom I spake first in the business of the Match and delivered him the contents thereof in writing which I have sent to Mr. Secretary I received from him the same answer in effect as from the Conde de Olivarez That he desired the Match no less then your Majesty That on his part there should be no time lost for the bringing of it to a speedy conclusion In the business of the Palatinate I spake unto the King with some length repeating many particulars of your Majesties proceedings and how much your honour was like to suffer that now whilst you were treating Heidelborgh defended by your Garrisons was like to be taken The King answered me He would effectually labour that your Majesty should have entire satisfaction and rather then your Majesty should fail thereof he would imploy his Arms to effect it for you My Lord Ambassador Sir Walter Ashton accompanied me at my audience and was a witness of all that passed as wel with the King as with the Conde de Olivarez Within few dayes after the newes of the taking of Heidelbergh came hither whereupon I dispatched again to the King in such sort as I have at large advertised Mr. Secretary Calvert The effect of my Negotiation was that they on the 13. of October dispatched Letters away of the Emperors and Duke of Bavaria's proceedings But pressing them further in regard their former Letters have wrought so little effect they have given me at present a second Dispatch which I have sent unto the Infanta and whereof Mr. Secretary will give your Majesty an account which I conceive will procure your Majesties better satisfaction then hitherto you have received from the Emperor and his party For the business of the match I have written to Mr. Secretary what is to be said at present and will only add that as I should not willingly give your Majesty hope upon uncertain grounds so I will not conceal what they profess which is That they will give your Majesty real and speedy satisfaction therein And if they intended it not they are falser then all the Devils in hell for deeper oaths and protestations of sincerity cannot be made It will only remain that I humbly cast my self at your Majesties feet for that addition of Title wherewith it hath pleased you to honour me and my posterity My gratitude and thankfulness wanteth expression and shall only say unto your Majesty That as all I have either of fortunes or honour I hold it meerly of your bounty and goodness so shall I ever cheerfully lay them down with my life into the bargain for the service of your Majesty and yours So with my humble prayers for the health and prosperity of your Majesty I humbly commend your Majesty to Gods holy protection and rest Your Majesties most humble servant and subject BRISTOL Madrid Octob. 21. 1622. King Philip the third of Spain to the Conde of Olivarez THe King my Father declared at his death that his intention never was to marry my sister the Infanta Donna Maria with the Prince of Wales which your Uncle Don Baltezer well understood and so treated this match ever with an intention to delay it notwithstanding it is now so far advanced that considering withall the aversness unto it of the Infanta as it is high time to seek some means to divert the treaty which I would have you find out and I will make it good whatsoever it be but in all other things procure the satisfaction of the King of Great Britain who hath deserved very much and it shall content me so that it be not the match Conde Olivarez his Answer to the King
of the match and my instructions under your Majesties hands were to insist upon the restoring the Prince Palatine but not to annex it to the treaty of the match as that therby the match should be hazarded for that your Majesty seemed confident that here it would never grow to a perfect conclusion without a setled resolution to give your Majesty satisfaction in the business of the Palatinate The same course I observed in the carriage of the business by his Highness and my Lord Duke at their being here who though they insisted on the business of the Palatinate yet they held it fit to treat of them distinctly and that the marriage should proceed as a good pawn for the other Since their departure my Lord Ambassador Sir Walter Ashton and my self have been pressed to have this Kings resolution in writing concerning the Palatinate and the dispatches which your Majesty will receive herewith concerning that business were writ before the receit of your Majesties Letters and doubtless it is now a great part of their care that that business may be well entred before the Infanta's coming into England And his Highness will well often remember that the Conde dé Olivarez often protested a necessity of having this business compounded and setled before the marriage saying otherwise they might give a Daughter and a War within three moneths after if this ground and subject of quarrell should still be left on foot The same language he hath ever held with Sir Walter Ashton and my self and that it was a firm peace and amity as much as an allyance which they sought with his Majesty So that it is not to be doubted but that this King concluding the match resolveth to imploy his uttermost power for your satisfaction in the restitution of the Prince Palatine The question now will be whether the business of the Prince Palatine having relation to many great Princes that are interessed therein living at distance and being indeed for the condition and nature of the business it self impossible to be ended but by a formall treaty which of necessity will require great length whether the conclusion of the match shall any way depend upon the issue of this business which I conceive to be far from your Majesties intention for so the Prince might be long kept unbestowed by any aversness of those which might have particular interest in the Princes remaining unmarried or dislike with his matching with Spain But that which I understand to be your Majesties aim is onely to have the conclusion of this match accompanied with a strong engagement as can be procured from this King for the joyning with your Majesty not onely in all good Offices for the entire restitution of the Palatinate but otherwise if need require of his Majesties assistance herein These days past I have laboured with all earnestness and procured this Kings publique answer which I am told is resolved of and I shall within these few days have it to send to your Majesty as also a private Proposition which will be put into your hands and shall not fail further to pursue your Majesties present directions of procuring this Kings Declaration in what sort your Maiesty may rely upon this Kings assistance in case the Emperour or the Duke of Bavaria hinder the entire restitution of the Prince Palatine Bu I conceive if it be your intention that I should first here procure this Kings peremptory answer in the whole business and how he will be assistant unto your Maiesty in case of the Emperours or the Duke of Bavaria's aversness And that I should send it to your Maiesty and receive again your answer before I deliver the Powers for the Deposorios the match would thereby if not be hazarded yet I conceive the Infanta's going at Spring would be rendred altogether impossible For if upon the arrival of the Approbation I cannot refuse them but upon some grounds if I alleadge your Majesties desire of having the Deposories deferred untill Christmass they know as well as my self that his Highness Proxy is then out of date besides the infringing of the Capitulations and they will judge it is a great scorn put upon this King who ever since the Princes granting of the powers hath called himself the Infanta's Desposado and to that effect the Prince hath writ unto him in some of his Letters Besides it will be held here a point of great dishonour unto the Infanta if the powers called for by her friends should be detained by the Prince his part and whosover else may have deserved it she certainly hath not deserved disrespect nor discomfort Further upon my refusal to deliver the powers all preparations which now go on cheerfully and apace will be stayed and there will enter in so much distrust and so many troubles and jealousies that if the main business run not hazard by them at least much time will be spent to cleer them I must therefore in discharge of my duty tell your Majesty that all your Majesties businesses here are in a fair way the Match and all that is capitulated therein they profess punctually to perform In the business of the Palatinate I continue my earnest and faithful endeavours and they protest they infinitely desire and will to the utmost of their powers endeavour to procure your Majesties satisfaction The Prince is like to have a most worthy and vertuous Lady and who much loveth him and all things else depending upon this match are in good and hopefull way This is now the present estate of your Majesties affairs as it appeareth unto me and to Sir Walter Ashton with whom I have communicated this Dispatch as I do all things else concerning your Majesties service And I must cleerly let your Majesty understand that I conceive by the retaining of the powers when this King shall call for them and offering to defer the Deposories untill Christmass that your Majesties business will run a hazard what by the distaste and disgust that will be raised here and what by the art and industry of those which are enemies to the match whereof every Court hath plenty in Christendom That therefore which I presume with all humility is That you would he pleased to give me order with all possible speed that when the busines shall come cleered from Rome and that the powers of the marriage shall be demanded of me in the behalf of this King that I may deliver them and no ways seek to interrupt or suspend the Deposorios but assist and help to a perfect conclusion of the match And for the business of the Palatinate I continue my earnest and faithfull endeavours to engage this King as far as shall be possible both for the doing of all good offices for the Palatines entire restitution herein I will not fail as likewise fo this Kings declaration of assisance in case the Emperor or Duke of Bavaria shall oppose the said restitution to use all possible means and I conceive the dispatch of
great Uncle and perceiving that all the Councels of the Calvinists do aim to bring in the Turk he will not condemn his translation For no less is the Lutherans hatred against the Calvinists as the Catholiques and they think less danger do proceed from the later It is to be hoped therefore that the Elector of Saxony and other Lutheran Princes when they see the business brought to this point will not so far disapprove thereof as to put themselves in Arms which I shall shortly understand of the most excellent Archduke Charls my brother who is for this cause to treat with the Elector of Saxony And these motives as they are of great consequence so I imagine you which are daily of his Majesties Councell have pondered them as diligently as my self and therefore that you will omit nothing that is pertinent to establish this business whereby we obtain the long and wished fruit thereof which is the propagation of the honor of Almighty God through the Empire and the augmentation of the common safety Family and Dignity Beloved Don Balthazar I understand that there was a motive of great consideration omitted in my Letter to wit that if we had more countenance of his Catholique Majesty then we have at this present the Empire should always remain in the hands of Catholiques and so according to reason in our House to whose advancement the Duke of Bavaria will willingly concur in recognition of such a benefit being promoted by an Emperour of that House to so eminent and high a dignity as in our letters Vienna Octob. 15. 1621. King James to Ferdinand the Emperour concerning the Palatinate Novemb. 12. 1621. IAmes by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. wisheth health and constant peace unto the most mighty and invincible Prince Ferdinando by the same grace elected Roman Emperour King of Germany Hungary and Bohemia Archduke of Austria c. our loving friend and cousin Most mighty and invincible Prince Brother Cousin and speciall loving Friend It is not unknown unto the whole world much less to your Imperiall Majesty how earnestly we have hitherto sought and endeavoured as well by the diligence of our Ambessadors whom we have sent as by the intercession of the chief German Princes the appeasing of those Bohemian wars ever since they first began and with what ardent zeal and affection we have so much hunted after the desire of peace Let it not therefore seem strange unto any man that we take it ill that all the very time when we were to the uttermost of our power treating of peace and giving our best furtherance for the overture of wholsome means to effect it even then notwithstanding we found clean contrary effects to ensue thereupon whereat we much marvelled seeing the Treaty was in hand and already begun on all sides as namely among the rest that our son-in-law was wholly despoiled and robbed of his hereditary patrimony that remained unto him excepting the â—lower Palatinate which was all by commandment of your Imperiall Majesty taken and possessed by the Duke of Bavaria according as himself confessed with strong hand and force of Arms and that for such reasons as are meerly new and such as the like were never hitherto once heard of That notwithstanding it plainly appeareth by the answer given unto our Ambassador that your Imperial Majesty had caused the suspension of that Ban or prescription in those Countries yet did your Imperial Majesty permit the taking of Arms again in hand which also after the same your Imperial Majesties answer was yet again likewise commanded to be done in the Lower Palatinate whereby there hath therein been since raised a grievous and cruel war and most part of the Country taken in by the Spaniards powerfull strength But as we diligently observed those things we cleerly see what great trouble and misery hath been occasioned by this our great patience and long delaying forbearing and doubtfulness which without all doubt may be hereafter further occasioned and which may perhaps prove heavier then the chief reasons of this misery it self And therefore we hold it best and most expedient that your Imperial Majesty do at length put a period to this most unhappy business And for that end and purpose have thought good at this time so propound what we prescribe our Son in law on th' one part to perform towards your Imperial Majesty which we have always councelled and exhorted our Son in law to do nor will we so much as in the least once doubt of the contrary and adverse success therein but are perswaded that your Imperial Majesty will be most graciously moved to receive our Son in law into grace and favour to redeliver unto him his hereditary lands and titles which he had enjoyed before those Bohemian wars and fully to restore him to his former honours and dignities In regard whereof the Count Palatine shall perform unto your Imperial Majesty as followeth 1. He shall for himself and his Son wholly renounce and acquit all pretence of right and claim unto die Crown of Bohemia and the incorporated Countries thereof 2. He shall from henceforward yield all constant due devotion unto the Imperial Majesty as do other obedient Princes Electors of the Empire 3. He shall upon his knee crave pardon of the Imperial Majesty 4. He shall not hereafter any manner of way either unfittingly carry or demean himself towards the Imperial Majesty or disturb your Kingdoms or Countries 5. He shall upon reasonable conditions reconcile himself with other his neighbour Princes and States of the Empire and hold good friendship with them 6. And shall really do all other like things as is above contained and that shall be reasonable and necessary Which proposed Conditions if your Imperial Majesty shall please to receive and accept of the same will be a notable testimony of your Imperial Majesties goodness and grace which how well and acceptable it will be unto us shall be acknowledged and shewed by our very willing service and unfeigned friendship as well towards your Imperial Majesty as towards the most renowned house of Austria But if it shall fall out contrary to our expectation that these our just demands and well-willed presentation shall not find acceptance or after this our diligent endeavor you shall seek to delay us by the using some new tergiversation and pretend to use that long councel and deliberate advice of the Princes of the Empire upon these our propounded conditions whereas notwithstanding your Imperial Majesty expresly promised in your last answer freely to declare what should be your purpose and resolution therein So that there being no ground to the contrary as we call God and the world to witness there is not and being forced and constrained by the duty and natural affection which we owe and bear to our Children for the preservation of their honour and welfare we are resolved to try the uttermost of our power
for their relief especially seeing we sue for desire and would obtain and retain no new title of honour for our Son in law but only to have again those of his own now lost which he then had and enjoyed when we matched him with our dear and only daughter For if in this distress we should leave our Children and their Partisans without councel help and protection it would be a foul stain to our honour Let not therefore your Imperial Majesty in regard hereof blame us at all if we with a mighty and puissant Army by force and strong hand seek to recover that which by propounded and reasonable conditions we could not obtain for the continuance of our friendship But for as much as it is most certain this cannot be without the great hurt and prejudice of all Christendom the breach of publike peace and the wounding of our contracted amity and friendship with the house of Austria which we have ever hitherto by manifold testimonies uprightly faithfully and inviolably observed It is therefore requisite and necessary that your Majesty of your innate gracious mildness and goodness and of that most reverent discretion wherewith you are endowed to seek in time to meet with and prevent these so great evils likely to ensue and use brotherly love good will God almighty long preserve your Imperial Majesties life and at last so direct your heart that sweet peace and the concord of all Christendom now rent asunder may be recovered and again maintained At our Royal Residence-Town of Royston Novemb. 12. 1621. JACOBUS REX His Imperial Majesty to King James Ian. 14. 1621. COnstans atque eadem nobis semper fuit mens idem desiderum non tam verbis quam re ipsa demonstrandi quanti tranquillitatem in Imperio publicam mutuae amicitiae cum vicinis Principibus potissimum Serenitatis vestrae sincere colendae studium aestimaremus Inde si praeteriti temporis successus de rebus in utroque Palatinatu tam superiore quam inferiore innovat de quo literis ad nos datis Serenitas vestra conqueritur deflexisse videri possint illi culpa venit omnis imputanda quem ab improba cupiditate aliena regna captantem nec divini nec humani juris respectus nec supremi Domini sui reverentia nec sacri Jus-jurandi religio nec prudentissimi Soceri concilium cohibere potuerint imo qui justo Dei judicio ca acie in fugam profligatus usque adeo obstinatione sua pertinaciter etiamnum inheret ut continuis machinationibus per Jagarndorfium Mansfeildum aliosque crudeles pacis publica perturbatores Acharonta potius movere quam sanioribus acquiescere consiliis ab usurpatoque regni nostri titulo desistere non officiis per Serenitatem vestram per quam sane diligenter interpositis sua ex parte quid deferens videatur nec ullum in hanc usque horam animi poenitentis signum dederit Itaque in tractatu de pace instituenda uti condescendamus videt Serenitas vestra ab cis quos principaliter id concernit quam nulla nobis causa vel occasio praebeatur Id quidem ingenue profitemur in exulceratissimo eo negotio cujus calamitas universum pene orbem involvit cum Serenitatis vestrae candorem cam animi moderationem equitatis justitiaeque respectum enituisse ut nihil sit vicissim quod non ejusdem desideriis salva suprema auctoritate nostra Caesarea salvisque Imperii legibus libenter tribuamus qui pro innata nobis benignitate aequisque conditionibus Arma poni optatam afflictissimae Germaniae pacem restitui quam legitime executiones insisti per caedes sanguinem Christianum gloriosa nomini nostra trophaea figi nunquam non maluimus In gratiam itaque Serenitatis vestrae ut ret ipsa deprehendat quanti nobis sit perpetuum cum eadem amicitia cultum novo fomite subinde revocari licet hactenus prosperos militiae nostrae successus divina benignitas tribuit acquiescimus ut benevolo tractatis almae pacis redintigrandae rationes opportunae ineantur cumque in finem ad evitandum viarum temporumque dispendia nunc in eo sumus ut serenissimae Principi Dominae Elizabethae Clarae Eugeniae natae Infanti Hispaniarum Archiducissae Austriae Ducissae Burgundiae Stiriae Carinthiae Canniolae Wirtinburgiae Provinciarum Belgii Burgundiarumque Dominae Consobrinae ac sorori nostrae charissimae ut istic in aula sua quorsum vestra quoque Serenitas si ita libuerit suos cum plena facultate ablegare poterit primum cumque proximum assequende pacis gradum cessationem ab armis aequis conditionibus nomine nostro Caesari stabiliendum permittemus prope diem expedituri Legatum nostrum virum nobilem qui diligentissime in gravissimo hoc negotio mentem nostram plenius aperiet atque inde ad Serenitatem vestram animum nostrum ad redintegrandae pacis studia proclivem qui non aliter quam quibuscunque benevolentiae officiis cum Serenitate vestra certare studet magis magisque testificetur cujus interim consilia generosa praepotens Deus publico orbis commodo in faelicissimos â—ventus disponat Dat. Viennae 14 Jan. 1621. Earl of Bristol to King James MOst gracious Soveraign it may please your Majesty to remember that at my coming out of Spain I signified unto your Majesty how far the Duke of Lerma had upon severall occasions intimated unto me an extraordinary desire of this King and State not onely to maintain peace and amity with your Majesty but to lay hold of all things that may be offered for the nearer uniting of your Majesty and your Crowns and that from this generality he had descended often to have discourse with me of a match for the Princes Highness with the second daughter of Spain assuring me that in this King and his Ministers there was a forward disposition thereunto But from me he received no other answer but to this effect That I in the treaty of the former match for the late Prince had received so strange and unexpected answer from them that their demands seemed so improper and unworthy that I conceived that your Majesty had little reason to be induced again to give eare to any such overture or that I should again enter into any such treaty much less to be the motioner thereof Although I would confess that if I were fully perswaded of the sincerity of their intentions and of a possibility of having the said match effected I know not any thing wherein I would more willingly imploy my endeavours but as the case now stood I was certain that if I should but make any such motion in England should but draw imputation of much weakness upon me there and no whit advance the cause for that your Majesty and your Ministers would make no other construction of the motion but as construed to divert the Match of France which was treated of for that your Majesty who but the
year before had received so unpleasing and unequal an answer should now be perswaded that there was here so great a change as that a match was really desired there would now need more then ordinary assurance But the Duke of Lerma continuing severall times the same profession and telling me besides that the greatest Cases might be altered by circumstances and that the Age of this Prince was much more proper then that of his brother I freely let the Duke know that in case I might see that it was really desired here and that I might be able to propound unto my Master conditions of so much advantage and certainty as might put him and his ministers out of doubt that this overture was not again revived from hence either for diversion or winning of time I would then willingly intimate unto your Majesty the inclination and desire I found here of having a proposition for this match once again set on foot The Duke told me he would have a further conference with me and that he then no ways doubted to give such satisfaction as might well assure your Majesty and your Ministers that they sincerly desired the match in generall and would omit nothing on their side for the accomodating of particulars that might give furtherance unto it But the very night before the Duke had appointed a meeting with me there came a Post dispatcht out of England from the Spanish Ambassador upon the arrivall of Sir Thomas Edmonds into England who brought word that the match with France was absolutely concluded and that within few days it was to be published Whereupon the Duke at our meeting the next morning told me that it would be needless now to descend to any particulars in the business whereof we are to treat since that they had newly received advertisement that the match with France was fully concluded And thus for the present the matter rested untill some five or six weeks after about which time my self was to go into England and so taking leave of the Duke he asked me whether I had not received advertisement that the match with France was published I told him no but I had certainly heard that it was not as yet fully concluded Whreupon he intreated me that in case I found not the French match in such forwardness as it could not be stayed I would let him know of it and that if I should see any kind of possibility that the business we had spoken of might be set on foot I would advertise him and that thereupon he would proceed to those particulars which he formerly intended for my satisfaction Herewith I acquainted your Majesty and finding the Spanish Ambassador in England had notice from the Duke of our former proceedings and order to further them by all possible means he could especially if he should understand that your Majesty were not fully resolved of the French match I thought it fit by this means to let the Duke understand in what estate I found those businesses in England and thereupon with your Majesties permission I wrote a letter unto him to this effect That although it were true that the Match with France had been treated of with much earnestness on both sides and with great likelihood of being concluded yet there daily arose so many difficulties and new cases of delay that I judged it far from any perfect conclusion neither did I see cause absolutely to despair of the businesses which our selves pretended unless the difficulty of the Conditions should make it desperate But if those things should be expected by Spain which in the Treaty for the late Princess were demanded it were better by much not to renew the business then by impossible or unfitting propositions on either side to give distaste or lessen the friendship which now was betwixt your Majesties And therefore except that in Spain they would be contented with such conditions as your Majesty most fittingly and conveniently might yield unto and all other Catholique Princes were willing to content themselves with I neither saw cause to hope for good success or reason to set the treaty on foot But in case I might know that the conditions in point of Religion might be such as I should see a possibility of your Majesties condescending unto them I should be far from despairing of some good effect for that I knew that divers not of the meanest nor least power with your Majesty were hereunto well inclined and would give their helping hands Hereupon the Spanish Ambassador dispatcht his Secretary into Spain and received answer from the Duke that he should give me all assurance that there was a great desire and inclination to the making of the Match and that at my return into Spain they no way doubted but that I should receive such satisfaction as should make it appear on their part there should be nothing wanting for the effecting of it It now remaineth what hath passed herein since my last coming to this Court. I arrived here in Madrid only a day or two before Christmass and having some six dayes after my audience appointed by the King whilst I was in a withdrawing chamber expecting the Kings coming forth the Duke of Lerma came thither to bear me company and after many respectfull demands of your Majesty and the Queens and the Princes health and some few complements unto my self concerning my welcom again unto this Court he fell to speak of the false Alarms we had in England concerning a Spanish Armado seeming much to be displeased that any credit should be given to any thing to his Majesties dishonour and want of fidelity as he termed it But your Majesty he said did never believe it And it seems he heard of some pleasant answer your Majesty should make to some one of your Ministers that in great haste came unto your Majesty when you were a hunting and told you that the Spanish Fleet was in the Channel From this he entred into great protestations of the sincerity of this Kings affection and intention towards your Majesty telling me that I should now see how much they desired to work a greater neerness and uniting between your Majesties And that of the principal business of which we had in former time spoken meaning the Marriage he desired to speak with me but it must be at more leisure I answered that I would not fail shortly to wait upon him and that he should find me answerable to the professions I had made which was that being induced thereunto by such sufficient and good grounds as might satisfie my Master both for the convenience and fittingness of having such a Treaty set on foot and likewise might take away all objections of their intents of entertaining and diverting your Majesty hereby I would be as ready to do all good offices and give furtherance to the business as any Minister the King of Spain had And this was all that at our first meeting passed in this business About some eight days
Italy had to be jealous of the Arms of my Crown for having possessed many places of importance some I have freely given away and others after I had defended them in a time the owners had need I presently restored with much liberality Upon this moderation the Duke of Nivers being hardned against the Emperor my Uncle and he perhaps and other Princes calling thither the most Christian King who not contenting himselfe to have attained that which he publickly professed to desire and having left Garrison in Mountferrat and in Suza and as I am told having fortified some places hath thereby given occasion to the Emperour my Uncle to give order his Army should passe into Italy to maintaine the Authority Jurisdiction and preheminency of the Empire with whom I can doe no lesse then concurre and give him assistance in respect of the great and strict obligation of Blood of Honour and of Conveniency which I hold with his imperial Majesty and for the which I doe acknowledge from the sacred Empire declaring now as I have done heretofore and as my Embassadours have told your Holinesse that in this businesse I do neither directly nor indirectly aim at any other end of mine own particular interest But beholding the numerous Armies of the Emperour in Italy and with extreme griefe foreseeing the harmes inconveniences and dangers that Italy must thereby suffer in matter of Religion being that which most importeth I doe not only resent it in respect of that portion which God hath given me in Christendome but especially as a King and Prince of Italy the peace of those Provinces being disturbed which my Progenitors with so much Judgment and providence and with so much Authority and benefit of the Natives had so many years preserved Wherefore I thought it my duty to present unto your beatitude that experience hath demonstrated that to oppose and straighten the Jurisdiction of the Emperour and to resist his commandments hath brought matters to these difficult terms and this way being still persisted in there must needs follow those mischiefâ— which we desire to shun Now the most convenient manner how to compose these businesses is that your Holinesse doe effectually perswade the Duke of Nivers to accomodate himself to the Justice and obedience of the Emperour and the King of France to recall his Armies out of Italy and the Princes that doe aid Nivers no more to interest themselves in the businesse even as from the beginning my Ministers have propounded to your Beatitude because this difference being ended juridically all the persons interessed shall come off with honour and reputation and so all of them shall have a ground to beseech the Emperour that out of his wonted clemency he wil take off that impression which he justly might have conceived against the Duke of Nivers whereupon things inclining to this issue I shal with a very good will imploy my best offices to the end that speedy and exact justice may be administred and also that his Caesarian Majesty may give experimental effects of his magnanimity and stability desiring with a most sincere affection that so much Christian blood may be spared as would be spilt in this war and that those forces might be imployed to the service and not to the prejudice of Christendome Thus have I cleerly and sincerely delivered my meaning unto your Holinesse to the end that knowing my intention you may do those offices which your manifold wisedome shall find proper for the place whereto God hath advanced you and if God for our sins have decreed to chastise Christendome by continuing the war let this dispatch be a testimony of my good wil and real intention towards peace for the prosecuting whereof I on my part will alwaies imbrace any reasonable and proportionable meanes Oar Lord God preserve your Beatitude a thousand yeares The Councel of Ireland to King Charles in defence of the Lord Deputie Faulkland April 28. 1619 MAy it please your most excellent Majesty we stand so bounden to your royall Self and your most blessed Father our late deceased Soveraigne Lord and Master as we are urged in duty to prostrate this act of our faith at your Majesties feet as an assay to cleer some things wherein misinformation may seem to have approached your high Wisdome We understand that it is collected out of some late Dispatches from hence that there are such disorders in the Government here as by the present Governors are remedilesse all which is ascribed to the differences between persons of chief place We do in all humility testifie and declare that we have not seen or known any inconvenience to the publick service by the difference between your Majesties Deputy and Chancellor neither have of late seen or heard any act or speech of contention between them Other difference between persons of any eminent Action wee understand none neither are any disorders here yet so overgrown as co surpasse the redresse of the present Governour especially so long as he hath such a standing English Army as your Majesty now alloweth if only we may receive some supply of Armes and munition which we have often written for do daily expect and which shall be no losse to your Majesty It is true most gracious Soveraign that in some late dispatches we mentioned three grievances in this government which in extent may threaten much if we be not timely directed from thence concerning them viz. the insolence and excrescence of the Popish pretended Clergie the disorder and offence of the Irish Regiment and the late outragious presumption of the unsetled Irish in some parts towards all which being parties perhaps otherwise conceived of there then understood here your Deputy and Councel have of late used particular abstinence holding themselves somewhat limited concerning them by late Instructions Letters and directions from thence And therefore lest countenance of that course might turn to greater damage we make choice seasonably to crave expression of the good pleasure of your Highnesse and the most Honourable Lords of your Councel lest our actions and zeal therein might vary from the purposes on that side and so want of unanimity in both States breake the progresse of the Reformation not that we any way make doubt to give your Majestly a good accompt of our selves therein and of the ful eviction of those evils in due time so we might be assured of your Majestys and their Lordships good allowance of our endeavours being confident in all humility to declare and affirme to your Sacred Majesty that the rest of this great body as to the civil part thereof is in far better order at this time then ever it was in the memory of man as wel in the current and general execution of Justice according to the Lawes in the freedome of mens persons and estates the present charge of the Army excepted and in the Universal outward subjection of all sorts of setled inhabitants to the Crowne and Lawes of England and also in the
over-tedious to your Majesty and being well assured how well your Majesty stands inclined to either of these points Ferdinand the Emperour to Don Balthazar de Zuniga October 15. 1621. To the Honorable and sincerely beloved Don Balthazar de Zuniga Cousin and Councellour of State to the most excellent and Catholique King of Spain Honorable and sincerely beloved WHat my mind and purpose is touching the translating of the Electorship to the Duke of Bavaria according to the promise I made him and wherefore I think that business so necessary and profitable as for Germany in generall so particularly for securing our House from all attempts of Heretiques as his Holiness exhorts me not to be further delayed You shall understand as well by conference with Father Jacinthus whom his Holiness hath for that purpose addressed unto me his Majesty of Spain my Nephew and other Catholiqne Princes of Germany as by these ensuing reasons whereof the principall are That when I repeat from the beginning the whole course of my Reign and the difficulties through which I have attained my Kingdoms and Provinces I behold with reverence the admirable providence of God over me which makes me the more bound to repose my trust in him and not to omit any occasion which may tend to the advancement of his glory and the honor of so admirable tried providence and therfore that I should use that most notable victory to the honor of God and extirpation of all seditions factions which are nourished chiefly among the Calvinists and that I should withdraw my self from that judgement that the Prophet threatens to the King of Israel Because thou hast dismissed a man worthy of death thy Son shall be for his soule The Palatine keeps now in Holland exiled not onely from the Kingdom which he rashly attempted but despoiled almost of all his own Territories expecting as it were the last cast of Fortune whom if by an impious kind of commiseration and subtile Petitions I be perswaded to restore to his Electorall dignity and nourish in my bosome as a troden half living snake what can I expect less then a deadly stinging For it is in vain for me to think that he should be able to discern the greatness of such a benefit For the Polititians saying is true Vltionem quaesivi gratiam oneri habere especially since the injuries he did me are so heynous his projects so subtile that although I should overcome him with Christian charity yet I should never be able to take him from the guilt of his offences and make him soundly faithfull unto me but he will always gape at all occasions whereby he may free himself from fear of his ill deservings and cover his own prostituted honor with new attempts Add hereunto the Calvinists institution of whose Sect the proper genius is to hold nothing either fraud or wickedness which is undertaken for the Religion no sanctity of oath nor fear of dishonour hinders them From such an one what caution can either the house of Austria or other Catholique Princes with whom he is no less in enmity because for Religion as because they are interessed in the war receive The King of England will be engaged but of the same Religion nor is there any thing more easie then when there is occasion of perpetrating any wickedness to palliate it with a pretext of a breach of the League Histories are fraughted with examples in some there are no cautions sufficient in such a business then to drive him where he cannot hurt all other means are frail and he which once believed is despised It is likewise a consideration of no less moment that the Palatine being restored will draw all his power and policie as hitherto so hereafter where he thinks he can do most hurt and that most easily to wit to Bethlem-Gabor and the Turks whom he hath already incited to hostility against me and will never cease hereafter to instigate the Galvinists intire hopes in them These untill they recover breath and recollect their forces they endeavour to disarm and exhaust me of monies ranging in my territories as they have done hitherto by fire and sword But if with them also whom notwithstanding I cannot trust alike I should make peace what conditions will Gabor who remains yet unconquered require if I should restore the Palatine already conquered to his Electoral dignity Therefore since long before God granted me that famous victory I firmly forecast with my self that the Palatine could not be restored to his Electoral dignity without the extreme danger of the Catholiques and my house I offered freely on my own motion but being directed questionless by God the Electorship to the Duke of Bavaria a most eager Defender of the Catholique cause whose territories on the other side lie as a Rampire between me and other Princes of Germany and since I made so good use of his help and so profitable in the recovery of my Kingdoms and Provinces and continue yet to this day time it self more then the said Duke doth cry out that I should accomplish my promise without further delay and by translation of the Electorship take away quite all hopes from the Palatine and them that sollicite us so importunately for a restitution that we may be freed from all molestation which thing since it needs the help of his Majesty of Spain although I know his Majesty be propense enough of himself to all things which appertain to the honor of God and the security of our House yet I thought good to admonish you of this occasion lest this opportunity of establishing of our Religion and Family escape which I conceive might conveniently be done by you Neither do I suppose his Majesty to be ignorant that it was alwayes judged of our Ancestors that the House of Austria which by Gods permission doth now signiorize far and neer upon the earth to have its chief foundation here in Germany which is the more to be defended the nearer its mine depends thereupon In times past this House hath had proof of many adversaries to its greatness as the Histories under Maximilian the first Charles the fift Ferdinand the second and Rodulf the second do shew the perfidiousness of Holland against his Majesties Grandfather Philip the second fetcht her food from the Palatinate neither can his Majesty ever reduce the rebellious Hollanders to obedience unlesse his root be pluckt up which onely motive besides these which I alledged before might justly induce him not to suffer a fallen enemy to rise and resume as his stomack will never fail him strength again But albeit it is not to be dissembled that the Lutheran Princes especially the Elector of Saxony will not approve haply of this translation because they fear it conduceth too much to the corroborating of the Catholique Cause Nevertheless since he cannot accuse that act of Charls the fifth who for a far lighter cause deprived John Frederick of the Electorship and confer'd it on Maurice this Dukes
probable to produce a good effect and that I hoped God would give happy success unto the business But I should be bold in one thing to deliver my opinion which was No wayes to interess our Masters herein unless by the understanding and cleering the difficulties on both sides there should be great appearances and probabilities that the business would take effect For if their names should be herein used and after their Treaty should not be successfull it would but exasperate and breed a greater distaste betwixt your Majesties The Duke told me he himself misliked not my opinion though he said that howsoever that business succeeded yet your Majesty should have reason to accept kindly this Kings good intention for that if it miscarried it should appear not to be their default but that they had stretched as far as honor and conscience would give them leave And thus much he said I might write unto your Majesty if I thought fit or to my confident friends in England upon his word and assurance and so telling me that he would presently appoint those that should confer with me in this business we then parted Within two days after I went to the Duke and after that I had spoken with him about the business of Cleves according to my instruction whereof I gave an account unto Mr. Secretary in a dispatch directed unto him we fell again into the speech of the match The Duke told me had well considered of that which I had said unto him and much approved it not to interest our Matters in the business until we should see some likelihood of good success And for that he supposed the difference of Religion like to prove the onely difficulty of consideration he thought it fit that it should be first cleared and therefore he would break the matter with the Cardinall of Toledo the Kings Confessor and with them he joyned another learned man one Father Frederick who since I understand is a Jesuite but truly hath the report of a moderate man These the Duke said should have order to confer with me as far as might be reserving safe the grounds and sincerity of their Religion I answered the Duke that I was well satisfied herewith and that if their demands were such as might content any other Catholique Prince I should have hope of good success if otherwise I should judge it a happiness to be put out of doubt and suspence and so we passed from this subject I presume to set down to your Majesty all the passages of this business with so much length and fulness for that I no way dare adventure to offer unto your Majesty any opinion or belief of my own either for the fitness of the match or the sincerity of their intention or the possibility of accommodating differences of Religion But your Majesty seeing undisguised all that hath hitherto passed with every circumstance may be pleased out of the consideration and knowledg of those particulars to frame unto your self both such a beliefe of their direct meaning and such a resolution of the further proceeding herein as shall be most suitable to your Majesties wisdom onely I think it fit to set down further unto your Majesty the particular ends which may be conceived they aim at by setting this business afoot at this present in case they should not intend really to perform it The first may be to stagger and divert your Majesties Treaty with France The second for entertaining your Majesty with fair hopes and promises thereby to keep you from declaring your self opposite unto them in the present business of Juliers and Cleves which remaineth still uncompounded But this being so your Majesty may be pleased to understand that they serve themselves with this occasion not that there could be any such thing primarily in their intention for that the expression of their desire to the match was the last year long before these differences happened Further the Duke of Lerma should be the most fals and dishonorable man living without Christianity or soul if he should voluntarily damn himself with oathes and protestations of a thing that he sincerely meant not and truly he should deal contrarily to the wisdom of his other proceedings wherein he layeth all occasions of distaste or discourtesie upon other inferior Ministers labouring still to clear himself of the imputation of them if in this he should make himself the author and instrument of so unjust and indirect proceeding between Princes But the course of most security and caution is that your Majesty suffer none of your other resolutions to be interrupted by this overture onely if your Majesty be pleased for a while to entertain and suspend the conclusion of the match with France I conceive it can be little to your Majesties disadvantage It lastly now remaineth that I become an humble suiter unto your Majesty for your clear and full directions in this business desiring if your Majesty will have it further entertained that I may have ample instructions from your Majesty both that I may intimate what may be expected in point of Dowry and in all other things to be required by your Majesty as likewise how far I may proceed in satisfying in point or Religion For it is not to be supposed that they wil proceed with that freeness and directness which is to be wished unless in a fitting measure they shall see me likewise able and willing to declare my self in such points wherein they may expect satisfaction I intend not hereby to move for a formall Commission to treat but onely a private instruction for my direction and warrant how to behave my self as may be most advantagious to the cause and your Majesties ends So humbly desiring your Majesty to command this Bearer to be dispatched back with all convenient speed I commend your Majesty to the holy protection of God Your Majesties faithfull subject and servant BRISTOL Abignoto to Conde Gondomar concerning the death of Philip the third VPon the last day of February being Sunday 1620. his Catholique Majesty after he had heard Mass and the Sermon in the Chappel was taken with a Feaver which continued with him eight dayes with a ruddiness and pimples which appeared plainly in his face which afterwards began to diminish but he was suddenly taken with a vomiting and a great feaver which continued with him till the 21. day and the Physitians were of opinion to have him rise out of his bed which was accordingly done both that day and the next but about dinner-time happened unto him a great swouning which much astonisht him and the 23. day in the night his feaver did redouble upon him with a vomiting and a flux in the belly and a great melancholy and an opinion that he should die which feaver continued with divers reduplications the Physitians having an ill opinion of him till on Saturday night the 27. when his reduplications were more violent his water bad and the King persevered in saying how
the Match will be a good pawn in the business and the help and assistance which the Princes being once betrothed would be able to give in this Court to all your Majesties businesses would be of good consideration So fearing I have already presumed too far upon your Majesies patience I humbly crave your Majesties pardon and recommend you to the holy protection of God resting Your Majesties most humble and faithful subject and servant BRISTOL Madrid Octob. 29. 1623. Earl of Bristol to King James Novemb. 1. 1623. MAy it please your most excellent Majesty I find that upon the news that is now come from the Duke of Pastrava that the Pope hath cleerly passed the Dispensation which is now hourly expected here There is an intention to call presently upon me for the Princes powers for the marriage left in my hands the which I know not upon what ground or reason to detain the Prince having engaged in the said powers the faith and word of a Prince no way to revoke and retract from them but that they should remain in full force till Christmass and delivered unto me a politique declaration o his pleasure that upon the coming of the Dispensation I should deliver them unto this King that they might be put in execution and hereof likewise was there by Secretary Serita as a publique Notary an Instrument drawn attested by all the witnesses present If I shall alleadge your Majesties pleasure of having the marriage deferred untill one of the Holidays although they should condescend thereunto that impossible for the powers will be then expired If I shall insist upon the restitution of the Palatinate this King hath therein declared his answer and it would be much wondred why that should be now added fo a condition of the marriage having ever hitherto been treated of as a business apart and was in being at the granting of the said powers and hath been often under debate but never specified nor the powers delivered upon any condition of having any such point first cleered and I must confess unto your Majesty I understand not how with honour and that exact dealing which hath ever been observed in all your Majesties actions the powers can be detained unless there should appear some new and emergent cause since the granting of them whereof as yet I hear none specified Therefore being loath to be the instrument by whose hands any thing should pass that might have the least reflection upon your Majesties or the Princes honour which I shall ever value more then my life or safety and judging it likewise to conduce more to your service and assuring my self that your Majesties late direction to have the marriage upon one of the holidays in Christmass was for want of due information that the powers will be then expired I have thought it fit with the advice of Sir Walter Ashton to raise no scruple in the delivery of the said powers but do intend when they shall be required to pass on to the nominating of a prefixed day for the Deposorio's but I shall endeavour to defer the time untill I may be advertised of your Majesties pleasure if it may be within the space of 24 dayes and will labour to find some handsom and fair occasion for the deferring of them without alleadging any directions in that kind from your Majesty or the Prince The reasons why I have thought it fit to take this resolution are First I find by your Majesties letters and the Princes that your intent is to proceed in the marriage and to that purpose your Majesty and the Prince have set me free to deliver the powers according to the first intentions by removing that scruple of the Infanta's entring into Religion whereupon they were only suspended Secondly your Majesties Letter only intimateth a desire not a direction of having the marriage upon one of the holidays of Christmass which I conceive is to be understood if it may well and fittingly be so not if there shall be impossibility therein by reason of the expiring of the powers before and that the intention of having it then should be overthrown thereby when I am confident that what your Majesty writeth is for want of due information of the clause of expiration of the powers Thirdly if your Majesty upon these reasons and such as I have formerly alleadged unto your Majesty should as I no way doubt but your Majesty will give me order for the present proceeding to the marriage yet by my refusing of the powers and alleadging your Majesties or the Princes directions although afterwards all things should be cleered yet would it cast some kind of aspersion and jealousie upon the sincerity of your Majesties and the Princes proceedings On the contrary side if your Majesties intention be not to proceed in the match whereof I see no ground the intimation of that may be as well a moneth hence as now And I judge it duty in a servant especially in a business of so high a consequence and wherein your Majesty hath spent so much time to give his master leisure to repair to his second cogitations before he do any act that may disorder or overthrow This I offer with all humility unto your Majesties wise and just consideration and beseech you to make interpretation of my proceedings herein according to my dutifull and zealous care of your honour and service I have of purpose dispatcht this Post with this Letter to the end I may receive your Maiesties directions in this particular with all possible speed which I hope shall be to proceed directly to the marriage according to the Capitulations and so to order all things for the Princess he journy in the Spring And for the Palatinate your Maiesty may be confident there shall be diligence used in procuring a speedy and good resolution So c. King James to the Palsgrave My most dear Son WE have been carefull and are at this present to perform the promise which we made unto you to imploy all our power to re-establish you into your estates and dignities and having by the patience and industry which we have used reduced matters within a more neer circle and of a less extent then the generality m which they were heretofore We have thought good to give you knowledge of such things whereof hope is given to us that we shall in all apearance obtain them to the end you may have recourse to your wisdom and after a mature deliberation make choyce agreeable to the providence honor and safety of your estates duly weighing and examining all circumstances and therefore we present unto you these Propositions to wit In the first place a due submission to the Emperour under convenient limitations which first shall be granted and agreed in conformity to that which is Noble with a safe conduct and assurance requisite and sufficient for the free and safe going and return of your Person and Train This being done we make you offer of a present and
full restitution of all the Palatinate unto the person of your son and that you shall be his Administrato during your life And that after the death of the Duke of Bavaria your son shall be re-established in the Electorall dignity And for the better confirming the sound Amity and assuring your Possessions and enioying of all according to the contract which is presently to be made and also to serve for a preparation for the bettering of the said conditions to your person which will be in all likelihood when the marriage will be resolved and concluded to be made betwixt your eldest son our Grand-child and one of the Emperours daughters In contemplation whereof they have approached a degree neerer to wit that the Electorall dignity shall come again to your person after the Duke of Bavaria's death In which Treaty of marriage to clear the principall difficulty which consisted with the education of your son with the Emperour we have taken from them all hope therein wherein we assure our selves you will be content and are purposed that he shal have his education with our son and with and in the presence of the Infanta when she shall be in our Court We have exactly shewed you the state of this Negotiation which chiefly concerns you and yours to the end you may fix your eyes upon your necessity and bare condition and manner of living which dependeth on the courtesie and assistance of others and that you may judge advisedly whether your ready entrance into the possession of your own and with a kind of present liberty of living with insurance in time to recover the possession of it shall not be more convenient for you then a hazardous long expectation upon othet uncertain means The former whereof I prefer before the later We pray you to consider what probable and feasible means we may undertake to reduce your condition to that state as you promise your self wherein we doubt not but you will weigh our forces and those of our Allyes and such other whereof we may hope to be assured to the end that if it should happen that we cannot obtain to the entire of that we desire by way of treaty or that we should take another course you may be partaker of Councels as well as the issues and uncertain events And forasmuch as we are desirous to consider with you for your personall estate and as we are obliged to have regard to the right of our only daughter and to the inheritance of your children with the hope of their posterity by what way it may be most easily established and by what fit means provision may be made best to that effect And herein we remain your most affectionate Father From White-Hall Novemb. 20. Jacobus Rex The Palsgraves Answer to King James SIR I Take as a great honor and favour your Majesties Letter of the 2â— of November delivered unto me by the hands of your Ambassador Sir Dudley Carleton who hath further explained your Majesties intention touching that which concerneth my restitution unto my honors and patrimonial estate that you continue firm and constant in conformity to your promises to labour and effect by one way or other so that the said restitution may be intire and totall as well in that which concerneth the Electorall dignity as the Palatinates and that the Propositions which your Majesty makes by your Letter to content my self to be Administrator to my son and he to be invested with the said dignity and put into present possession of the Palatinate is but in all events if so be your Majesty could not attain to the totall restitution the desired effect of your intentions leaving me nevertheless to be at liberty to chuse the lesser of the two evils if I may be permitted to term them so the one by the totall restitution of my Estates but with diminution or rather annihilation for so in effect it wil be in respect of my person of the Electorall dignity th' other of the recovery of both by war the events whereof are uncertain First I most humbly thank your Majesty for the paternall care which you continue and shew in this occasion and which doth more comfort me and my dear wife in our afflictions then the fear of humane events can grieve or incline us to be willing to recover the loss of goods with the loss of honors I will therefore use the liberty which your Majesty is pleased to give me in answering every particular point of your Letter In the first whereof I observe the proceeding of my enemies who require a personall submission intended to precede all other things under the safe conduct of the Emperour whereas by natural order used in these occasions the restitution which is materiall and substantiall ought by reason to precede the other being but a point of ceremony at the least it is necessary that all things be resolved and concluded under such assurances as shall be held convenient and then if the intentions on the Emperours part be reall and sincere and without any aim to take advantage upon my person as the Emperour Charls 5. did upon the Lantgrave of Hessen under the subtilty of a distinction of a syllable in safe conduct Ewis for Einis the said submission may as well be made by a Deputy as otherwise whereby I shall be freed from the apprehensions which the execution at Prague other cruelties exercised by the Imperialists may easily impress in the mind of him who is unwilling to lose himselfe by a quiete de Coeur Besides a simple consent to such a submission under the specified condition to yeild the Electorate to the Duke of Bavaria will be sufficient to prejudice my cause for ever For the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh who have always protested against the translation of the Electorate and the other Princes of Germany who have like feeling will disavow their protestations in regard of him who shall abandon his own pretentions and in stead of favouring me upon some breach of the Treaty or otherwise may be my opposites Moreover the experience of things past teach us what issue we may hereafter expect of the like condition contented to on our part The Emperour having manifestly abused us in two already First in the instrument which I signed for the conditionall resignation of the Crown of Bohemia in the year 1621. Then in my ratification of the suspension of Arms this last Summer The first having served the Emperour to accelerate his Treaty then on foot with Bethlem Gabor The second to intimidate the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh that they might not undertake any thing against the Emperour both the one and the other being divulged to the same effect according to the knowledge which the Emperour had of these designes before any thing was therin resolved and concluded And so will the Emperour in all appearance make his profit of this present proposition and strike with one stone two blows by hindering the
progress of Gabor on the one side and by continuing on the other the intimidation of the Princes of Germany who may with reason excuse themselves if they move not for him who hath bound himself hand and foot and consented to a submission which being yeilded to it will be always in the Emperours power to break or go on as he shall hold it expedient for himself I do also promise my self that your Majesty will have regard that by such submission and intreaty my undue proscription and banishment which being done in prejudice of the constitutions of the Empire are therefore held by the Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh of no validity be not approved and thereby a mark of infamy set upon me and my posterity Touching the second point your Majesty may be pleased to remember that on the part of Spain hope hath alwayes been given me from the beginning of a totall and intire restitution to my own person yea the Earl of Bristol hath assured me by his Letters from Madrid in November 1622. when the marriage was not so much advanced at this time That the King of Spain in case of refusall of the totall restitution would joyn his forces with those of your Majesty against the Emperor to constrain him thereunto And yet in stead of the said restitution the translation of my Electorate to the Duke of Bavaria was since at Ratisbone agreed and congratulated unto him from Bruxels the inferior Palatinate dismembred by the grant of the Bergstreat one of the best peeces thereof to the Elector of Mentz the superior with the Bailywicks granted to the Duke of Nuburgh thereby to engage them further in the quarrel by the particular defence of that which generally the Imperialists have usurped upon me they confiscate and seise the goods of my subjects and those that follow my party sparing neither widow nor orphans It seems therefore necessary above all things to have sufficient assurance for the total restitution of my Electorate and Palatinates before any new treaty of marriage be proposed Of the which treaties as they are ordinarily handled and managed by the house of Austria and drawn to length and delays with the onely aim to the augmentation of their greatness without respect to civil honesty word or promise I have a dolefull experience in my own house in the person of one of my predecessors Frederick the second who contributed more to the first foundation which was laid for the greatness of the said house of Austria then any other German Prince and for recompence was allured and drawn by the space of many years with treaties and promises of marriage without any real intention as was seen by the effect ever to bring them to execution Seeing therefore that he who had so well deserved of the house of Austria which in all external appearance held him in greater estimation then any other German Prince was nevertheless so unworthily used by them in a treaty of marriage I who have been unduly put into the Ban of the Empire and spoiled of all my honours and goods by the eagerness hatred and usurpation of the Emperor himself whose daughter is propounded for the marriage in question know not what to hope but the same effect of fraud and deceit which my forenamed predecessor found with a sorrowful repentance of the evil when it was pad remedy And the Emperor wanteth but two or three years of leisure which he shall easily gain by a treaty of a marriage to establish in Germany the translation of my Electoral dignity and Patrimonial estate without any hope ever hereafter to recover the like opportunity as at this time that my pretensions are not prejudiced by a long interposition of time and that the memory of undue proceeding in the publication of the Ban against my person and the said translation of my Electoral dignity and seâ—sure of my patrimonial inheritance are yet fresh in the affections and minds of the Princes of Germany who are by the consideration of their own interests moved with the greater companion to see the wounds of my miseries yet fresh and bleeding and with passion and earnest desire to see them remedied And in this place I will say something in answer to the last point of your Majesties Letter wherein you commanded me to consider the means probable and feasible whereby my condition may be reduced to the former state and to weigh your Majesties forces with those of your Allies and others whereof your Majesty may hope and be assured If your Majesty hopeth for my restitution in Germany as an effect of the marriage with Spain nothing else is to be done but attend the event with patience And if you continue to distinguish between the Spaniards and the Imperialists there is no more to be said on this subject but as they have with joint consent conspired my ruine with the same forces the same councels and the same designs your Majesty will find if you please to unmask the fair seeming and hidden malice of the Spaniard the same effect as in the end you found the open and declared violence and hostility of the Imperialists who besieged your Majesties garrisons in my Towns taken into your protection I will use the liberty you have given me to discourse of your Majesties forces and those of your Allies and what may further with good probability be hoped from other friends and well-willers In the last rank I place what may be hoped from the Princes of Germany who to wit the two Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh and in effect all the rest except those of the Catholique league have sufficiently declared the disavowing of the Emperors proceeding against me and their opinions that the peace of Germany dependeth upon my restitution besides the Levies which they made in the beginning of the last summer though by the unlucky accident of the Duke Christian of Brunswick they were soon after dismissed And certainly no want of any other thing to be converted to my aid but the countenance of a great Prince to support them against the power of the house of Austria the same affections remaining still in them and the same resolution to imbrace the first good occasion that shall be presented for the liberty of Germany Will there want hands for the accomplishing of such a work when it shall be undertaken openly and earnestly seeing that the number of those that have their interest conjoyned with mine is great and mighty For the greater part of the people both horse and foot which marched under the Catholique banner were of a contrary Religion to the Catholique and of affection as it is notorious to all the world more inclined to the ruine of those Leagues then to their preservation But the conduct of some powerfull Prince is necessary as well to the men of war us we have seen by experience the last year The King of Denmark is he upon whom all have set their eyes but he being a Prince
English The two Ambassadors here ever since the Princes departure have visited the Infanta as vassals but now they carry themselves like Ambassadors again We are all here in suspense and a kind of maze to see the event of things and how matters will be pieced together again we know not A Memoriall to the King of Spain by Sir Walter Ashton Ambassader in Spain Aug. 29 1624. SIr Walter Ashton Ambassador to the King of Great Britain saith That the King his Master hath commanded him to represent to your Majesty that having declared to your Majesty the reasons why he could receive no satisfaction by your Majesties answer of the first of January and that thereby according to the unanimous consent of his Parliament he came to dissolve both the Treaties of the Match and Palatinate he received another answer from your Majesty wherein he finds less ground to build upon and having understood that either by the Padre de Maestro or your Majesties Ambassadors which have assisted these dayes past in this Court there was something to be propounded and declared touching the business of the Palatinate whereby he might have received satisfaction the said Ambassadors untill now have not said anything at all to purpose which comparing with other circumstances of their ill carriage he gathers and doubts that according to the ill affection and depraved intentions wherewith they have proceeded in all things but especially in particular they have laboured to hinder the good correspondency and so necessary and desired intelligence which should be conserved with your Majesty Furthermore he saith That the King his Master hath commanded him to give account to your Majesty that in an Audience which he gave to the Marquess de Injiosa and Don Carlo Colomma they under Cloak and pretext of zeal particular care of his person pretended to discover unto him a very great conjuration against his person and Royall Dignity and it was That at the beginning of the Parliament the Duke of Buckingham had consulted with certain Lords of the arguments and means which were to be taken touching the breaking and dissolving of the Treaties of the Palatinate and Match and the consultations passed thus far That if his Majesty would not accommodate himself to their councels they would give him a house of pleasure whither he might retire himself to his sports in regard that the Prince had now years sufficient to and parts answerable for the government of the Kingdom The Information was of that quality that it was sufficient to put impression in him of perpetual jealousies in regard that through the ribs of the Duke he gave wounds to the Prince his son and the Nobility and it is not probable that they could bring to effect such designs without departing totally from the obligation of faith and loyalty which they owed to his Person and Crown because the Lords made themselves culpable as concealers And it is not likely that the Duke would hurl himself into such an enter prize without communicating it first with the Prince and knowing his pleasure And because this information might be made more clear he did make many instances unto the said Ambassadors that they would give him the Authors of the said Conjuration this being the sole means whereby their own honor might be preserved c. whereby their great zeal and care they had pretended to have of his person might appear But instead of confirming the great zeal they had pretended to bear him all the answer they made him consisted of Arguments against the discovery of the Conspirators So that for the confirmation of the said report there remained no other means then the examination of some of his Councell of State and principall subjects which he put in execution and made them take oath every one particularly in his own presence and commanded that such interrogatories and questions should be propounded unto them that were most pertinent to the accusation so that neither part particle or circumstance remained which was not exactly examined and winnowed and he found in the Duke and the rest that were accused a sincere Innocency touching the accusations and imputation wherewith they were charged This being so he turned to make new instances unto the said Ambassadors that they should not prefer the discovery of the names of the Conspirators to the security of his Royall person and truth and honor of thmeselves and the hazard of an opinion to be held and judged the Traytors of a plot of such malice sedâ—tion and danger But the Ambassadors remaining in a knotty kind of obstinacy resolved to conceal the Authors Nevertheless afterterwards he gave them an audience wherein the Marquess of Injiosa took his leave Few days after they demanded new audience pretending that they had somthing to say that concerned the publique good and conduced to the entire restitution of the Palatinate with desire to lose no opportunity that might conduce thereunto and therewith the confirmation and conservation of the friendship with your Majesty having suspended some few days to give them audience thinking that being thereby better advised they would resolve upon a wiser course and declare the Authors of so pernitious an action and having since made many instances and attended the success of so long patience he sent his Secretary and Sir Francis Cottington Secretary to the Prince commanding them that they should signifie unto the Ambassadors that he desired nothing more then the continuance of the friendship 'twixt both the Crowns and if so they had any thing to say they would communicate it to the said Secretaries as persons of so great trust which he sent to that end And if they made difficulty of this that they would chuse amongst his Councell of State those which they liked best and he would command that they should presently repair unto them and if this did not likewise seem best unto them that they would send what they had to say in a Letter sealed up by whom should seem best unto them and he would receive it with his own hands But the Ambassadors misbehaving themselves in all that was propounded the said Secretaries according to the order which they brought told them that they being the Authors of an information so dangerous and seditious had made themselves uncapable to treat further with the King their Matter and were it not for the respect to the King his dear and beloved brother and their Master and in contemplation of their condition as Ambassadors of such a Majesty he would and could by the Law of Nations and the right of his own Royall Justice proceed against them with such severity us their offence deserved but for the reasons aforesaid he would leave the reparation hereof to the justice of their King of whom he would demand and require it In conformity whereof the said Ambassador of the King of Great Britain saith that the King his Master hath commanded him to demand reparation satisfaction of your Majesty against
for that respect discontinue my writing to you and because no private businesse occurreth I will be bold to advise a line or two concerning the publick affairs of Italy Cassal is still made good against the Spanyard not by the Duke of Mantua for he poor Prince was long since bankrupt but by the succours of France and this Seignory the former contributing monthly 40000 Dollers the latter 20000 not only to maintaine the Cassaleschi but also to enable the Duke to stand fast against all other the Spanyards attempts mean while we hear say boldly that a league offensive and defensive against the Spanyards in Italy is concluded betweene the French and the Venetians and that the French King hath already sent out two Armies one under the Duke of Guise by sea who they say is landed at Nizza the other under the Marquess de Coeure who is marching hitherward through the Valtoline and though I doubt something these proceedings of the French yet I am sure the Seignior doth daily give out new Commissions for the levying of Souldiers in that number that now every one demands what strange enterprize this State hath in hand and all jump in this that it is against the Spanyard The Pope is still adverse to the Spanyard and inclines strongly to the good of Italy animating this State to meete the French with a declaration and the French to conclude a peace on any honorable terms with us that they may the more safely follow their present designs which is to suppresse the Spanyards in Italy his Catholick Majesty hath lost a great deale of credit in these parts by the losse of his Silver Fleete and that he is in extreme want of mony is collected here from the present state of some of his publick Ministers Ognat his ordinary Embassadour at Rome being lately recalled in stead of going home into Spaine hath retyred himselfe privately to Monte Pincio being in such premunire that he is not able to accommodate himselfe with necessaries for his journy And Mounterei who is to succeed him is arrived as far Sienna but being foundred in his purse is able to get no farther meane while living there in an Inne Moreover the Merchants in Rome are advised by their correspondents in Spaine to be wary in letting either of them have monies this is from a good hand in Rome Sir Kenelm Digby hath lately been at Delos where he hath laden great store of Marble he is said to be in very good plight and Condition I trouble you no more Venice 5. January 1629. Stilo novo Your faithful servant C. H. The Lords of the Council of England to the Lords of the Councel in Ireland 31 Jan. 1629. BY your Letter dated the ninth of January we understand how the seditious riot moved by the Friars and their adherents at Dublin hath by your good order and resolution been happly supprest and we doubt not but by this occasion you will consider how much it concerneth the good Government of that Kingdome to present in time the first growing of such evils for where such people be permitted to swarm they wil soon grow licentious and endure no government but their own which cannot otherwise be restored then by a due and seasonable execution of the Law and of such directions as from time to time have been sent from his Majesty and this Board Now it redoundeth much to the honour of his Majesty that the world shall take notice of the ability and good service of his Ministers there which in person he hath been pleased openly in Councel and in most gracious manner to approve and commend whereby you may be sufficiently encouraged to go on with like resolution and moderation til the work be solely done as well in City as in other places of your Kingdome the carriage whereof we must leave to your good discretions whose particular knowledge of the present state of things can guide you better when and where to carry a soft or harder hand only this we hold necessary to put you in mind that you continue in that good agreement amongst your selves for this and other services which your Letters do expresse and for which we commend you much that the good servants of the King and state may find encouragement equally from you all and the ill affected may find no support or countenance from any nor any other connivances used but by general advice for avoiding of further evils shall be allowed and such Magistrates and Officers if any shal be discovered that openly or underhand favour such disorders or do not their duties in suppressing them and committing the offenders you shall doe well to take all fit and safe advantages by the punishment or displacing of a few to make the rest more cautious This we write not as misliking the faire course you have taken but to expresse the concurrency of our Judgments with yours and to assure you of our assistance in all such occasions wherein for your further proceedings we have advised And his Majesty requireth you accordingly to take order first that the house wherein Seminary Friars appeared in their habits and wherein the Reverend Arch-Bishop and the Maior of Dublin received the first affront be spedily demolished and be the mark of terror to the resisters of Authority and that the rest of the houses erected or imployed there or elsewhere to the use of suspicious societies be converted to houses of correction and to set the people on work or to other publick uses for the advancement of Justice good Arts or Trades and further that you use all fit meanes to discover the Founders Benefactors and Maintainers of such Societies and Colledges and certifie their names and that you find out the Lands Leases or Revenues applyed to their uses and dispose thereof according to the Law and that you certifie also the places and institutions of all such Monasteries Priories Nunneries and other Religious houses and the names of all such persons as have put themselves to be brothers and sisters therein especially such as are of note to the end such evil plants be not permitted to take root any where in that Kingdome which we require you take care of For the supply of Munition which you have reason to desire we have taken effectuall order that you shall receive it with all convenient speed And so c. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord President Lord Privy Seale L. high Chamberlain Earl of Suffolk Earl of Dorset Earl of Salisbury Earl of Kelly Lord Viscount Dorchester Lord Newbergh Mr. Vice Chamberlaine Mr. Secretary Cooke Sir William Alexander The Lord Faulkland's Petition to the King MOst humbly shewing that I had a Sonne until I lost him in your Highnesse displeasure where I cannot seeke him because I have not will to find him there Men say there is a wilde young man now prisoner in the Fleete for measuring his actions by his own private sense But now that for the same your Majesties hand
hath appeared in his punishment he bowes and humbles himselfe before and to it whether he be mine or not I can discern by no light but that of your Royal Clemency for only in your forgivenesse can I owne him for mine Forgivennesse is the glory of the supremest powers and this the operation that when it is extended in the greatest measure it converts the greatest offenders into the greatest lovers and so makes purchase of the heart an especial priviledg peculiar and due to Soveraigne Princes If now your Majesty will vouchsafe out of your owne benignity to become a second nature and restore that unto me which the first gave me and vanity deprived me of I shall keep my reckoning of the full number of my sons with comfort and render the tribute of my most humble thankfulnesse else my weak old memory must for get one The Duke of Modena to the Duke of Savoy July 30. 1629. WHen I was deprived of my Mistriss the Infanta Izabella so intimately beloved of me I was suddenly possessed with a most ardent desire of finding the meanes how to follow her into Paradise and distrusting in regard of my weaknesse and life past that I was not able to stand in those dangers wherein that holy soule knew how to finde security and tranquillity I resolved to retire my selfe out of the tempestuous sea of Government and to shelter my selfe in the harbour of Religion rejoycing to sacrifice that unto God which useth to be so highly esteemed in the world and knowing that truely to raigne is to serve his Divine Majesty hitherto I deferred the execution of my purpose because being bound in this to depend upon the Counsel of him that governed my soule it seemed not expedient to him that I should retire my selfe while there was need of my assistance both in respect of the age of the Duke my father which was Caesar d'Este who dyed 1628 and of the nonage of the Prince my son which is Don Francisco who now governeth Now that these impediments are removed I goe most contentedly whither the Lord doth call me namely to take upon me the Capuchin Religion out of Italy and I doe promise to find for my self in one little Cel that repose which all the greatnesse of the world cannot give me True it is if I should look back upon my life past I should find motives rather of terrour then of comfort But the mercy of God doth make me confident and my having for his love and to performe his wil renounced all that I could or had I departed also most comforted because I leave the Prince my son so well qualified that I may confidently expect an excellent issue of his Government especially if your Highness shall vouchsafe to direct him with your most prudent Counsels and to shrowd him under your benigne protection whereunto with reverent affection I doe recommend him together with the rest of my sonnes especially Carlo Alexandro who is now living in your Highnesse his Court since that as a man may say they have no other Father then your Highnesse and are branches of your Princely house Unto your Highnesse was in all respects due from me the accompt which I have given you of my vocation I beseech you to accept it and to believe that I will alwaies be answerable to my dutie and will pray for the spirituall and temporal increase of your Highnesse whose hands I reverently kisse Your Highness most humble and most obliged servant Alfons d'Este From Salsuolo the 30th of July 1629. Sir Kenhelm Digby to Sir Edward Stradling To my Honourable Friend Sir Edward Esterling aliàs Stradling aboard his ship MY much honoured freind I am too well acquainted with the weaknesse of my abilities that are farre unfit to undergoes such a task as I have in hand to flatter my selfe with the hope that I may either informe your understanding or do my selfe honour by what I am to write But I am so desirous that you should be possessed with the true knowledge of what a bent will I have upon all occasions to doe you service that obedience to your Command weigheth much more with me then the lawfulnesse of my excuse can to preserve me from giving you in writing such a testimony of my ignorance and erring fantasie as I fear this will prove Therefore without any more circumstances I wil as near as I can deliver to you in this paper what the other day I discoursed to you upon the 22d Staffe of the ninth Canto in the second book of that matchlesse Poem The Fairy Queen written by our English Virgil whose words are these The Frame thereof seem'd partly Circuler And part Trianguler O work Divine These two the first and last proportions are Th' one imperfect mortal faeminine Th' other immortal perfect masculine And twixt them both a quadrat was the base Proportion'd equally by seven and nine Nine was the Circle set in heavens place All which compacted made a goodly Diapase In this Staff the Author seemeth to me to proceed in a differing manner from what he doth elsewhere generally through his whole booke for in other places although the beginning of this Allegorie or mistical sense may be obscure yet in the processe of it he doth himselfe declare his owne conceptions in such sort that they are obvious to any ordinary capacity But in this he seemeth only to glance at the profoundest notions that any science can deliver to us and then of a suddaine as it were recalling himself out of an Enthusiasme he returneth to the gentle relation of the Allegorical history that he had begun leaving his readers to wander up and down in much obscurity and to rove with much danger of erring at his intention in these lines which I conceive to be dictated by such a learned spirit and so generally a knowing soule that were there nothing else extant of Spencers writings yet these few words would make me esteeme him no whit inferiour to the most famous men that ever have been in any age as giving an evident testimony herein that he was throughly versed in the Mathemeticall sciences in Philosophy and Divinity unto all which this might serve for an ample Theame to make large Commentaries upon In my praises upon this subject I am confident that the worth of the Author will preserve me from this censure that my ignorance only begetteth this admiration since he hath written nothing that is not admirable But that it may appeare I am guided somewhat by my owne Judgement although it be a very meane one and not by implicit faith and that I may in the best manner I can comply with what you may expect from me I will not longer hold you in suspence but begin immediately though abruptly with the declaration of what I conceive to be the true sense of this place which I shall not goe about to adorne with any plausible discourses or with authorities and examples drawne from others writings
Indeavours to appease the Bohemian tumults 113 Offers Conditions to the Emperour on the behalfe of the Palatine 114. his Propositions to the Palatine 143 144. acknowledged Protectour of the Germane Protestants 149. his directions concerning Preachers 183. makes Romano Martyrs 199 Janin President of the Parliament of Paris 195 Infantasque Duke 98 Inquisition of Spaine 97 Instructions to Sir John Perot Deputy of Ireland 15 16 By King Charles for the Vniversity of Cambridg 227 Ireland in what condition in Sir John Perots time 16 17 18 In the beginning of King Charles 235 236 237 238 239 Irish delight in change 17. barbarous 46. murder theft c. legall with them 51. renegadoes in Spaine 100 101 Isabella Clara Eugenia Infanta of Spain 127 128 Isabella Infanta of Savoy 243 Isidore Spanish Saint 125 126 Italians dangerous to France 195 196 Justinian made Lawes concerning the Clergy 5 K Kings no man above them 6. like the Sun 36. of France and Spaine 198 L Lady of Antiochia 125 Lawes of England most jealous for the safety of her Kings 85 Leicester Earle out of favour turns religious 31 Lecturers dangerous 186 Lerma Duke in the life of Phil. the third moves the Spanish Match 117 c. 121 Lincoln Bishop Lord Keeper 190 Lisle Viscount after Earle of Leicester governour of Vlushing c. 93 Loanes denyed the King 182 London sometime the chamber of her Kings 81 Louis the thirteenth in his minority 123 c. enters Rochel 203. see Urbane Pope Louvre of France the prison of her King 194 Low Countries 149 Luenza Don John 126 M Mac Frogh Phelim 237 Magick 75 Magog a renegado Irishman guilty of thirteen murders 101 Manchester Earle 225 Manheim besieged 127 Mansfield Count 116 131 Maried men seven yeares older the first day 71 Mantua Duke 204 234. defended by the French and Venetians 239 Maria Donna Infanta of Spaine 126 133 134. deserved well of the Prince of Wales 140 Gives over learning English 151 Match with France 117 118. with Spaine 117 118 119 120 121 122 123. never intended by the Spaniards 133 Mathews Sir Toby 67 May Sir Humphrey 226 Merchants in Spaine see Spaniards Merit is worthier them fame 47 Monmorencie Duke 195 Monpensier Duke 36 Montauban in rebellion 204 Monteri Spanish Embassadour 210 Mountjoye Lord after Earle of Devon 35 36 Munster in Ireland marked for the Spanish invasions 17 N Nevers Duke see Mantua Duke Newburgh Duke 147 Norfolk Duke sues to the Queen for his life 11 Norris Sir Thomas 17. Sir John 42. Sir Francis 89 Northumberland Earl 58 59 Nottingham Countess 95 O Oath of Supremacy why urged 39 Odonnel 44 Ognate Spanish Embassadour at Rome 240 Oleron Iland 203 Olivarez Conde 130 131 139 Contrives to compose the Palatine differences without the Match 135 Order submitting the Town of Cambridge to the Vniversity 223 See Charles King Ordination of Priests c. how to be 187 Ormond Earl 42 44 45 Ossuna Duke 125 126 P Palatinate a motive of the Spanish match 129 134. Without which the Kings of England will do nothing 136 138 141 143 151. Dismembred 147 Parliaments tumultuous 229 230 Pastrana Duke 142 Patent for the Admiralty of Ireland 90 Perez Don Antonio Secretary to Philip the Second of Spain 100 Perrot Sir John Deputy of Ireland 13. His care of that Kingdome 17 Philip the Second of Spain transplants whole Families of the Portugese 51 Philip the Third of Spain upon his death-bed 125 c. Philips Sir Robert 155. Francis his brother ibid. Physick modern 75 Pius Quintus his Excommunication of the Queen because of the Rebellion in the North 39 Polander defeats the Turks 198 Pope not more holy then S. Peter 8 Tyranny of Popes 29 Powder plot 67 Pretence of conscience 38 Preachers Licences to preach 183 Directions for preaching 184 Presbytery as mischievous to private men as to Princes 41. See Puritans Priesthood how to be honoured 4 5 Princes to be obeyed and by whom ibid. by Christs Law 7. Supreme Heads 5. Driven out must not give their Vsurpers too long time to establish themselves 147 Privy Seal for transporting of Horse 217 Puritans in the time of Queen Elizabeth 40. Would bring Democracie into the Church promise impossible wonders of the Discipline 41. Fiery Rebellious contemn the Magistrate ibid. Feared not without cause by King James 193 Q Quadrivials 75 R Ranelagh in Ireland 237 Rawleigh Sir Walter 85 86 Ree Iland 203 Rich Baronness sister to Essex writes to the dishonour of the Queen and advantage of the Earl 32 Richardson Chief Justice of the Bench 228 Richer forced by Richlieu recants his opinions against the Papal Supremacy over Kings 196 Richlieu Cardinal greatly solicitous for the English Romane Catholicks 197 Rochel 200. in what condition at the surrender 202 203. Fifteen thousand dye of the famine ibid. Rohan Dutchess in Rochel during the siege 202. Duke 204 206 208 210 Romish Priests seduce the subjects from their obidience their practices against the Queens sacred person 39 40 Roman Catholickâ—â— sue to King James at his entrance for toleration 82 83. great lovers of him the only good subjects witness the Mine then plotted 82 their Religion upon their own words 83 84 Russel Sir William 237 Ruthuen after Lord Ruthuen unhandsomely used by the Earl of Northumberland 106 107 S St. John Oliver against Taxes contrary to Magna Charta c. would not have Oathes violated in which the divine Majesty is invocated fearful of the Arch-Bishops Excommunication 160 Saxonie Elector 114 Scandal what 97 Scriptures how to be expounded 2 3 Seminaries blossom 39 in Ireland seditious appear in their habits 240 241 Serita Don John 125 Sin immortal to respect any of the English Church 101 Southampton Earl 58 Spaniards designe upon Ireland 17 spoil base Bologne 37. lose their Apostles 47. wrong and oppress the English Merchants 97 98 99 102 103. suits in Spain immortal ibid. give pensions to the Irish renegadoes 100 101. unreasonable in the businesse of the Match 127 137 146. swear and damn themselves yet never intended it 132 c. their unworthy sleights to make K James jealous of the Prince and others 152 153. oppose the rights and succession of the Duke of Nevers to Mantua and Montferrat 234 lose their silver Fleet poor 240 Spencer Edmund see Fairy Queen his worth and Learning 45 252 Spinola Marquess 198 199 Spiritualia how to be taken 5 6 Stanley Sir William 18 Superstition worse then Atheisme 160 Supreme Head the Kings Title 1 2 c. 39 T Tilly Count 131 Toirax Governor of the Fort in the I le of Ree 201 Toledo Cardinal 123 Toleration of Religion in Ireland necessary 52 Treason of the Papists in the clouds 40 cannot beget fâ—ir passions 86 Treaty with Tyrone 43 44. of Bruxels 127 128 Trimouille Duke 37 Turks against the Pander 198 Tyrone 43 44 101 V Valette Cardinal 197 Venetians side with the Mantouan 239 240 Villeroye Secretary of France 195 Urban the Eight encourages Louis the Thirteenth to fall upon the Hugonots 211 212. against the Spaniards 240 Usurpers exhalations 37 W Wallop Sir Henry has ill Offices done him to the Queen 19 Walsingham Sir Francis his reasons why the Queene sometimes restrains and punishes the Puritans 38 Warham Archbishop of Canterbury 98 Warrants of the Queen to the Lords of Ireland at the going over of Sir John Perot 14 15 Weston Sir Ridhard Chancellour of the Exchequer after L. Treasurer and Earl of Portland 128 Wilks Sir Thomas 36 37 Willoughby Lord 90 Winchester Bishop 189 Words are to be construed to make truth 8 Y Yelverton Sir Henry censured in the Starchamber 107 108 109 Ynoiosa Marquesse 152. his base carriage to King James 153 Z. Zunige Don Balthazar 109 112 c. 130 FINIS